Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Red Junglefowl
The wild ancestor of the domestic chicken, sporting a fiery orange-red neck, glossy dark tail, and bold red comb.
gamebird
Palm Cockatoo
A huge, sooty-black cockatoo with a wispy crest, bare red cheek patches, and a massive bill used to crack hard nuts.
parrot
Ostrich
The world's largest and heaviest living bird, a flightless African species built for speed on the open savanna.
other
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
A chunky, non-migratory sparrow of rocky hillsides marked by a rusty cap and a black-and-white striped face.
songbird
Oriental Turtle Dove
A large, richly patterned dove with a scaly, chestnut-and-black back and a distinctive black-and-white striped neck patch.
other
Pacific Loon
A mid-sized loon with a smooth pale grey nape and a crisp black chin strap, common along the Pacific coast in winter.
seabird
Southern Fiscal
A black-and-white shrike of southern Africa known for impaling prey on thorns and barbed wire as a food cache.
songbird
King Bird-of-paradise
A tiny, jewel-like bird-of-paradise with a crimson-and-white body and two wire-thin tail plumes tipped with emerald discs.
songbird
House Finch
A common backyard finch with the male showing rosy red on the head and breast and heavily streaked brown flanks.
songbird
Ferruginous Hawk
The largest North American buteo, a pale, rusty-shouldered hawk of the open western prairie and shrub-steppe.
raptor
Eurasian Oystercatcher
A boldly pied black-and-white shorebird with a long orange bill and pink legs, common on European coasts and estuaries.
shorebird
Black Drongo
A glossy black, red-eyed bird with a deeply forked tail, famous for fearlessly mobbing crows and raptors.
songbird
Black Stork
A shy, glossy black-and-white stork of forested wetlands, far more secretive than its familiar cousin the White Stork.
wading-bird
Black-winged Stilt
The Old World stilt, with black wings and back set against pure white underparts and extremely long pink legs.
shorebird
Purple Heron
A slender, reddish-necked relative of the Grey Heron that hides among reedbeds across Africa, Europe, and Asia.
wading-bird
Eurasian Wren
A tiny, energetic brown songbird with a characteristically cocked tail and a surprisingly loud, powerful song.
songbird
Rose-ringed Parakeet
A slender bright-green parakeet with a long pointed tail; males sport a narrow black-and-pink neck ring.
parrot
Seaside Sparrow
A large, dark, long-billed sparrow that never leaves the tidal salt marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
songbird
Pacific Black Duck
Australia's most widespread dabbling duck, mottled dark brown with a bold dark eye-stripe and cream-buff face.
waterfowl
Sand Martin
A small brown-and-white swallow relative that nests colonially in burrows dug into sandy banks and cliffs.
songbird
Purple-rumped Sunbird
A dazzling small sunbird of southern India and Sri Lanka with a maroon back and iridescent purple rump.
songbird
Juniper Titmouse
A plain gray, crested titmouse of pinyon-juniper woodlands across the Great Basin and interior West.
songbird
Lesser Nighthawk
A desert-dwelling nighthawk, smaller and buffier than the Common Nighthawk, with a low, soft trilling call and lower flight.
other
Greater Coucal
A large, crow-sized cuckoo-family bird with glossy black body, chestnut wings, and a deep, resonant booming call.
other