Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Princess Parrot
A slender, long-tailed Australian desert parrot with soft pink, olive, and blue plumage and a highly nomadic lifestyle.
parrot
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
A small, mostly green lorikeet of eastern Australia named for the scalloped yellow "scaly" pattern across its breast.
parrot
Long-billed Corella
A white cockatoo of southeastern Australia with a distinctively long, slender bill and pink-red markings across the face and throat.
parrot
Welcome Swallow
A glossy blue-black swallow with a rufous forehead and throat, common across Australia and long regarded as a harbinger of spring.
songbird
Pied Currawong
A large, mostly black songbird of eastern Australia with white wing and tail patches and a loud, ringing 'currawong' call.
songbird
Straw-necked Ibis
A striking black-and-white Australian ibis famous for forming huge nomadic flocks that follow outbreaks of grasshoppers and locusts.
wading-bird
Western Rosella
The smallest of the rosellas, found only in southwestern Australia, with a red head and underparts, green back, and bright yellow cheek patches.
parrot
Little Corella
A gregarious white cockatoo of inland Australia with pale blue-grey eye-rings, often seen in huge, noisy flocks.
parrot
Bourke's Parrot
A small, soft pink-and-brown Australian grass parrot known for its gentle nature and dawn-and-dusk feeding habits.
parrot
Musk Lorikeet
A small, fast-flying green lorikeet of southeastern Australia distinguished by its red face patch and namesake musky scent.
parrot
Eastern Rosella
A strikingly colorful Australian parrot with a bright red head and breast, white cheek patches, and a scalloped yellow-green back.
parrot
Budgerigar
A small, nomadic Australian parrot; the wild form is bright green and yellow with fine black scalloping across the back and wings.
parrot
Star Finch
A small Australian grass finch with a scarlet face mask, olive-green body flecked with white spots, and a red tail and rump.
songbird
Pied Butcherbird
A bold black-and-white songbird with a hooked bill, celebrated for one of the most beautiful and flute-like songs of any Australian bird.
songbird
Rufous Whistler
A grey-backed, rufous-breasted songbird whose loud, cheerful, far-carrying whistled song is a signature sound of Australian woodlands.
songbird
Zebra Finch
A tiny, boldly patterned Australian finch famous for its orange cheek patch, fine barring, and near-constant chattering calls.
songbird
White-winged Chough
A glossy black, red-eyed Australian woodland bird that forages in noisy cooperative flocks and flashes white wing patches in flight.
songbird
Rainbow Lorikeet
A brilliantly multicolored Australian parrot with a deep blue head, green wings, and an orange breast band, common in gardens and flowering trees.
parrot
Scarlet Honeyeater
A tiny, brilliant honeyeater in which the male is a vivid scarlet-red with black wings, one of the smallest and most colorful honeyeaters in Australia.
songbird
Gouldian Finch
A small Australian grassland finch renowned for its extraordinarily vivid rainbow plumage of purple, yellow, green, and a red or black head.
songbird
Buff-banded Rail
A boldly barred, secretive rail with a chestnut nape and buff breast band, found skulking in wetland vegetation across Australia and the Pacific.
wading-bird
Black Swan
A large, entirely black-plumaged swan native to Australia, with a bright red bill and curly white wing feathers revealed in flight.
waterfowl
Regent Bowerbird
A striking rainforest songbird; the male is patterned in bold black and rich golden-yellow, one of the most vividly colored birds of eastern Australia.
songbird
Owl Finch
A small Australian grass finch with a distinctive white, black-ringed face resembling an owl's, paired with two crisp black breast bars.
songbird