Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Atlantic Canary
A small, streaky yellow-green finch native to the Canary Islands, Azores, and Madeira, and the wild ancestor of the familiar Domestic Canary.
songbird
Red Crossbill
A stocky finch with uniquely crossed mandibles specially adapted to pry seeds from conifer cones.
songbird
White-winged Crossbill
A boreal finch with a crossed bill and two bold white wing bars, specialized for feeding on spruce cones.
songbird
Lesser Goldfinch
The smallest North American goldfinch, a bright yellow-and-black finch of western gardens, scrub, and open woods.
songbird
Common Linnet
A small, sociable finch of farmland and heathland, with breeding males showing a rosy-crimson flush on the forehead and breast.
songbird
Evening Grosbeak
A bulky, big-billed finch with bold black, white, and gold plumage, once a common winter visitor to feeders but now sharply declining.
songbird
Common Rosefinch
A sparrow-shaped finch whose adult males glow raspberry-red on the head and breast, best known for its cheerful, whistled song.
songbird
Yellow-billed Grosbeak
A stocky finch with an oversized yellow bill tipped in black, a black head (in males), and grey-brown body plumage.
songbird
Pine Siskin
A small, heavily streaked brown finch with sharp yellow wing and tail markings, notorious for unpredictable winter irruptions.
songbird
European Greenfinch
A stocky, olive-green European finch with bright yellow flashes in the wings and tail, and a heavy seed-cracking bill.
songbird
European Goldfinch
A strikingly colorful European finch with a bright red face, black-and-white head, and golden-yellow wing bars.
songbird
European Serin
A tiny, streaky, canary-like finch of southern and central Europe with a bright yellow-green rump and a fast, jingling song.
songbird
Brambling
A striking orange, black, and white finch of the northern taiga that winters in flocks, often alongside chaffinches, feasting on beech mast.
songbird
Eurasian Bullfinch
A stocky, shy European finch; the male shows a vivid rosy-pink breast, black cap, and gray back set off by a bright white rump.
songbird
Eurasian Siskin
A small, active yellow-green finch of conifer forests; the male has a black cap and bib, both sexes showing bright yellow wing bars.
songbird
Sociable Weaver
A small Kalahari finch-weaver famous for building the largest communal stick nests of any bird, sometimes housing hundreds of pairs.
songbird
Indigo Bunting
A small finch-like songbird whose breeding male appears brilliant all-over blue, produced entirely by feather structure rather than blue pigment.
songbird
Blue Grosbeak
A stocky, deep-blue finch-like bird with rich chestnut wingbars and a heavy silver bill, favoring brushy fields across the southern and central United States.
songbird
Common Chaffinch
One of Europe's most abundant finches, the male sporting a blue-gray crown and pink-buff breast, both sexes showing bold white wing bars.
songbird
Lilac-crowned Amazon
A green Mexican Amazon parrot with a maroon forehead and a lilac-blue crown, restricted to the Pacific slope.
parrot
Barnacle Goose
A compact black, white, and grey goose with a striking cream-white face, famous for nesting on sheer Arctic cliffs.
waterfowl
Quaker Parrot
A grey-faced South American parakeet uniquely known for building large communal stick nests rather than nesting in tree cavities.
parrot
Northern Parula
A small, compact, blue-gray and yellow warbler with a distinctive bicolored bill, closely tied to hanging Spanish moss or Usnea lichen for nesting.
songbird
Red-footed Booby
The smallest and most variably plumaged booby, easily told by its bright red feet and habit of nesting in trees on remote tropical islands.
seabird