Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Black-browed Albatross
The most abundant and widespread albatross species, easily identified by the bold dark stripe through its eye and its yellow-orange bill.
seabird
Black-and-white Warbler
A strikingly striped black-and-white warbler that creeps along tree trunks and branches like a nuthatch, gleaning insects from bark.
songbird
African Grey Hornbill
A widespread African hornbill with understated grey-brown plumage, a pale eyebrow stripe, and a dark bill topped by a bony casque ridge in males.
other
American Tree Sparrow
A rusty-capped sparrow with a bicolored bill and a dark central breast spot, a true winter visitor to much of North America despite its name.
songbird
African Crowned Eagle
One of Africa's most powerful forest raptors, capable of overpowering prey heavier than itself, earning it the nickname "leopard of the air."
raptor
Alexandrine Parakeet
A large green parakeet named for Alexander the Great, with a heavy red bill and a distinctive maroon shoulder patch.
parrot
Australian King Parrot
A large, long-tailed parrot of eastern Australian forests, with males sporting a brilliant scarlet head and underparts against a green back.
parrot
American Golden-Plover
A slim, elegant plover with gold-spangled upperparts that undertakes one of the longest migrations of any shorebird, between Arctic tundra and South American grasslands.
shorebird
American Oystercatcher
A large, boldly patterned coastal shorebird with a long, bright orange-red bill built for prying open shellfish.
shorebird
Black-footed Albatross
A dark, sooty-brown albatross of the North Pacific that often nests alongside the Laysan Albatross and follows fishing vessels far from land.
seabird
Asian Brown Flycatcher
A plain, understated grey-brown flycatcher best identified by its upright posture, white eye-ring, and habit of sallying out after insects.
songbird
Australasian Swamphen
A large, vividly deep-blue-and-purple waterbird with a red bill and frontal shield, often seen flicking its white tail as it walks.
wading-bird
Ash-throated Flycatcher
A pale, dry-country flycatcher with a whitish-gray throat, soft yellow belly, and rufous tail, common in western deserts and scrub.
songbird
Blue-and-white Flycatcher
A vivid forest flycatcher; the male is deep blue above with a black face and throat and a clean white belly.
songbird
Greater American Flamingo
The most vividly pink flamingo species, found in coastal wetlands of the Caribbean, Yucatan, and Galapagos.
wading-bird
Green-and-black Fruiteater
A chunky, short-tailed cotinga of Andean cloud forest, with males boldly patterned in bright green and jet black.
songbird
Double Yellow-headed Amazon
A large Amazon parrot with an entirely yellow head, native to Mexico and northern Central America and now heavily threatened.
parrot
African Paradise Flycatcher
An elegant sub-Saharan African songbird with a glossy blue-black crested head, chestnut plumage, and long trailing tail streamers in males.
songbird
American Three-toed Woodpecker
A boreal woodpecker with a barred black-and-white back, three toes per foot, and a taste for beetle-infested spruce.
woodpecker
Green-winged Macaw
A large red macaw distinguished from the similar Scarlet Macaw by a green band on the wing and fine red feather lines across the bare face.
parrot
Dovekie
The smallest North Atlantic auk, a plump black-and-white seabird that breeds in huge Arctic cliff colonies and winters at sea, often near pack ice.
seabird
Razorbill
A stocky black-and-white North Atlantic auk with a deep, blunt bill crossed by a white line, the closest living relative of the extinct Great Auk.
seabird
Hoary Redpoll
A pale, frosty-looking arctic finch, closely resembling the Common Redpoll but adapted to even colder, higher-latitude habitat.
songbird
Snowy Owl
A large, powerful white owl of the Arctic tundra, occasionally seen far south in winter hunting open fields by day.
owl