Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Curve-billed Thrasher
A common, noisy desert thrasher with a long downcurved bill and orange-red eyes, often seen atop cactus in the Southwest.
songbird
Nanday Conure
A green South American parakeet with a striking black head 'hood', blue-washed wings, and red thighs.
parrot
Crimson Rosella
A deep crimson-red parrot with blue cheeks and wings, common in forested and suburban parts of eastern Australia.
parrot
Black Drongo
A glossy black, red-eyed bird with a deeply forked tail, famous for fearlessly mobbing crows and raptors.
songbird
Ashy Drongo
A slate-grey drongo with a forked tail and red eyes, often seen wintering in gardens and forest edges.
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
Olive-backed Oriole
An olive-green songbird with cream underparts finely streaked in dark grey, a red eye, and a rich, fluty, far-carrying song.
songbird
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
Lappet-faced Vulture
Africa's largest vulture, instantly recognizable by its massive bill and bare pink-red head draped with fleshy folds of skin.
raptor
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
The smallest woodpecker in Japan, a sparrow-sized bird finely barred in brown and white, with males showing a tiny red spot on the head.
woodpecker
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
Gentoo Penguin
The fastest-swimming penguin species, recognized by its bright orange-red bill and a white patch stretching above each eye.
seabird
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
Black Crowned-Crane
A striking West and Central African crane with a golden crown of bristle feathers, a black neck, and bold red and white facial patches.
wading-bird
Horned Grebe
A small, striking grebe that in breeding plumage sports golden "horn" tufts of feathers behind bright red eyes.
waterfowl
Pine Grosbeak
A large, gentle, slow-moving finch of northern conifer forests, with rosy-red males and mustard-gray females.
songbird
Purple Finch
A stocky finch with a raspberry-red wash over the head, back, and breast in males, often confused with the House Finch.
songbird
Great Spotted Woodpecker
A striking black-and-white woodpecker with a bold red vent patch, the most widespread and familiar woodpecker across Europe.
woodpecker
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
Fischer's Lovebird
A small East African parrot with an olive-green head, orange-red face, and a bold white eye-ring.
parrot
Black Woodpecker
Europe's largest woodpecker, an all-black, crow-sized bird with a striking red crown and powerful excavating bill.
woodpecker
Common Pauraque
A resident Rio Grande Valley nightjar often spotted along roadsides at night by its reflective red eyeshine.
other
Collared Trogon
A colorful trogon of Neotropical foothill forest, with a green back, red breast, and a narrow white band separating the two.
other
Turkey Vulture
A large, dark scavenger with a naked red head and a distinctive tilting, V-shaped soaring flight, famed for its exceptional sense of smell.
raptor