Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Verdin
A tiny, active desert songbird with a bright yellow head and a chestnut shoulder patch, famous for its bulky twig nests.
songbird
Yellowhammer
A vividly yellow-headed bunting of farmland hedgerows, famous for its song often rendered as "a little bit of bread and no cheese."
songbird
Intermediate Egret
A medium-sized white egret of Africa, Asia, and Australia whose size and proportions fall neatly between the larger Great Egret and smaller Little Egret.
wading-bird
Variable Sunbird
A small, widespread East African sunbird whose male plumage pattern shifts noticeably from one region to the next, giving the species its name.
songbird
D'Arnaud's Barbet
An East African ground barbet with black-and-white speckled plumage, a yellow face, and a bubbling duet call, often seen bobbing near termite mounds.
other
Northern Flicker
A large, brown, ground-foraging woodpecker with a bold black crescent bib and a flashing white rump patch visible when it flies.
woodpecker
Purple Gallinule
A vividly colored marsh bird with iridescent purple-blue plumage, a pale blue frontal shield, and oversized bright yellow feet.
wading-bird
Channel-billed Toucan
A large South American toucan with black plumage, a yellow-orange throat and breast, and a robust, mostly black bill with a colorful base.
other
Black-hooded Oriole
A vivid golden-yellow oriole with a solid black hood and black-and-yellow wings, often heard before it is seen in leafy canopy.
songbird
Grace's Warbler
A gray-backed warbler of southwestern pine forests with a yellow throat and supercilium, resembling a smaller-scale Yellow-throated Warbler adapted to high pine canopy.
songbird
Golden Tanager
A glowing golden-yellow Andean tanager patterned with black markings on the face, back, and wings.
songbird
Eurasian Golden Oriole
A brilliant golden-yellow songbird with black wings, surprisingly hard to spot despite its vivid color thanks to its shy, canopy-dwelling habits.
songbird
Andean Flamingo
A pale, high-altitude flamingo of the Andes with bright yellow legs and the most black in its wings of any flamingo species.
wading-bird
White-throated Sparrow
A large, boldly patterned sparrow with a crisp white throat patch and yellow lores, famous for its whistled "Oh-sweet-Canada" song.
songbird
Scarlet Tanager
A brilliant scarlet-and-black canopy songbird of mature eastern forests, whose vivid breeding male molts into olive-yellow plumage for the winter.
songbird
New Holland Honeyeater
A lively black-and-white honeyeater with a bold white eye, yellow flashes in the wings and tail, and a habit of constantly flitting between flowers.
songbird
Purple Honeycreeper
A small tanager relative whose male plumage is a deep, velvety purple set off by black wings and bright yellow legs.
songbird
Indian Golden Oriole
A brilliant golden-yellow oriole with black wings and a black eye-stripe, closely related to the Eurasian Golden Oriole.
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
Great Crested Flycatcher
A large canopy flycatcher of eastern woodlands with a lemon-yellow belly, rufous tail, and a loud, whistled call, famous for weaving shed snakeskin into its nest.
songbird
Greater Bird-of-paradise
A spectacular New Guinea bird-of-paradise famed for the male's cascading golden-yellow flank plumes, displayed in dramatic communal courtship dances high in the rainforest canopy.
songbird
Painted Stork
A colorful South and Southeast Asian stork with a white and pink body, black-barred wings, and a curved orange-yellow bill.
wading-bird
Wood Warbler
The brightest and most sharply patterned of the leaf warblers, with a vivid yellow throat and breast, white belly, and a distinctive accelerating trill song delivered while quivering its wings.
songbird
Crimson Sunbird
A brilliant scarlet-and-yellow sunbird and the national bird of Singapore.
songbird