Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Black-throated Trogon
A quiet lowland-forest trogon with a black face and throat, green upperparts, and a bright yellow belly.
other
Common Gallinule
The New World counterpart to the Common Moorhen, with the same red-and-yellow bill and a bold white flank stripe.
wading-bird
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
A small, richly colored chickadee of Pacific coastal forests, with a warm chestnut back and flanks.
songbird
Vulturine Guineafowl
A strikingly patterned East African gamebird with a bare vulture-like blue head and cascading cobalt-blue breast plumes.
gamebird
Olive Sparrow
A skulking, olive-green sparrow of South Texas thornscrub with a striped rufous-and-gray crown and a bouncing-ball trill song.
songbird
Sacred Ibis
A striking white ibis with a bare black head and neck, revered in ancient Egypt, now widespread across African wetlands and farmland.
wading-bird
Great Reed Warbler
A large, powerful reed-dwelling warbler with a loud, harsh, croaking song that carries far across the reedbeds it calls home.
songbird
Little Tern
A tiny, fast-flying tern with a black-tipped yellow bill and white forehead patch that hovers before plunge-diving for small fish along sandy coastlines.
seabird
Le Conte's Sparrow
A tiny, brightly colored, mouse-like sparrow of wet prairie and sedge marsh, more often glimpsed scurrying through grass than seen in the open.
songbird
Golden-headed Quetzal
An Andean cloud-forest quetzal with iridescent green plumage, a golden-bronze sheen on the crown, and a crimson-red breast, but lacking the extremely long tail streamers of the Resplendent Quetzal.
other
Yellow-billed Kite
A common, adaptable African raptor with a bright yellow bill and forked tail, often seen soaring over towns and open country.
raptor
Screech Owl
A small, well-camouflaged, tufted owl of the Americas known for its distinctive quavering trills rather than an actual screech.
owl
Red-headed Weaver
A distinctive African weaver with a bright red head, throat, and bill on breeding males, set off against pale grey underparts and a mixed red-and-black back.
songbird
Pied Wagtail
The black-backed British and Irish form of the White Wagtail, a familiar sight bobbing its long tail across car parks, farmyards, and riverside paths.
songbird
Violet-backed Starling
A small African starling with a striking sexual difference: males glow amethyst-violet while females are streaky brown and white.
songbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler
An abundant, adaptable warbler nicknamed 'butter-butt' for its bright yellow rump, able to survive winter farther north than most warblers by eating berries.
songbird
Pied-billed Grebe
A chunky, secretive brown grebe of the Americas, named for its thick, pale bill marked with a black ring in the breeding season.
waterfowl
Princess Parrot
A slender, long-tailed Australian desert parrot with soft pink, olive, and blue plumage and a highly nomadic lifestyle.
parrot
Eurasian Reed Warbler
A plain, unstreaked, warm brown warbler of dense reedbeds, best known for its steady, rhythmic, chattering song and as a frequent host of the Common Cuckoo.
songbird
Black-winged Stilt
The Old World stilt, with black wings and back set against pure white underparts and extremely long pink legs.
shorebird
Eurasian Wren
A tiny, energetic brown songbird with a characteristically cocked tail and a surprisingly loud, powerful song.
songbird
Tawny Owl
A stocky, big-headed nocturnal owl of European woodlands, best known for its familiar hooting duet.
owl
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
Rose-ringed Parakeet
A slender bright-green parakeet with a long pointed tail; males sport a narrow black-and-pink neck ring.
parrot