Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Jacobin Pigeon
An old fancy pigeon breed instantly recognizable by the cascading hood of feathers that covers its head like a monk's cowl.
other
Hermit Thrush
A quietly spotted thrush known for its reddish tail, habit of slowly raising and lowering it, and hauntingly beautiful song.
songbird
Hartlaub's Turaco
A green, forest-dwelling turaco of the East African highlands, marked by bold white facial markings and a glossy blue-black crest.
other
King Rail
The largest North American rail, richly colored with a rufous breast and boldly barred flanks in freshwater marshes.
wading-bird
Mississippi Kite
A sleek, buoyant gray falcon-like kite that catches cicadas and dragonflies on the wing over Great Plains and southern woodlands.
raptor
Griffon Vulture
A huge, broad-winged Old World vulture that soars in flocks over mountains and plains searching for large animal carcasses.
raptor
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
A softly pink and white cockatoo of Australia's dry interior, best known for its brilliant red, yellow, and white banded crest.
parrot
Lammergeier
A huge Old World vulture famous for dropping bones onto rocks to crack them open and feeding almost exclusively on bone marrow.
raptor
Mountain Bluebird
A slender thrush of open western landscapes, the male an unbroken sky blue overall without any orange or chestnut markings.
songbird
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
A mid-sized pied woodpecker of old oak woodland, with a red crown in both sexes and softer, streakier underparts than its relatives.
woodpecker
Eastern Bluebird
A small thrush with vivid blue upperparts and a warm rusty-orange breast, often seen perched on fences and wires over open fields.
songbird
Gray Hawk
A compact, pale gray hawk of southwestern river woodlands, agile enough to chase lizards through dense cottonwood canopy.
raptor
Eared Grebe
The most numerous grebe in the world, known for its fan-shaped golden ear plumes and mass staging at hypersaline lakes.
waterfowl
Gray Vireo
A plain, uniformly gray, tail-flicking vireo of arid pinyon-juniper and chaparral country in the desert Southwest.
songbird
Golden Whistler
A striking, stocky songbird whose males wear a bold black, white, and golden-yellow pattern and deliver a loud, ringing whistled song.
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
Eurasian Bittern
A famously secretive reedbed heron known across Europe for the male's deep, foghorn-like booming call rather than for being seen.
wading-bird
Gambel's Quail
A desert-adapted quail closely related to the California Quail, distinguished by its plain buffy belly and chestnut side patches.
gamebird
Booted Racket-tail
A tiny Andean hummingbird with fluffy white leg puffs ("boots") and, in males, long wire-thin tail streamers tipped with tiny racket-shaped flags.
hummingbird
Brewer's Sparrow
A famously plain, pale grayish sparrow of sagebrush country best known for its long, buzzy, canary-like trilling song.
songbird
Chestnut-collared Longspur
A shortgrass prairie specialist whose breeding male shows black underparts, a chestnut collar, and a striking black-and-white tail pattern.
songbird
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
A slender, blue-gray songbird with a long, expressive black-and-white tail, constantly flicking as it hunts tiny insects.
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
Black-collared Barbet
A stocky African barbet with a vivid red face and throat bordered by a black collar, famous for its synchronized duet calls.
other