Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
A small, gregarious Australasian finch with a chestnut breast band and black face, often seen feeding in flocks on grass seed heads.
songbird
Cassin's Finch
A rosy-crowned montane finch of western conifer forests, closely resembling the Purple Finch but with a more sharply contrasting cap.
songbird
Crested Barbet
A boldly spotted yellow, red, and black African barbet with a shaggy crest, best known for its long, monotonous trilling call.
other
Black Redstart
A dusky, rock-loving chat that has adapted well to towns and industrial sites, the male dark sooty-grey with a constantly quivering rust-red tail.
songbird
Blue Tit
A small, acrobatic songbird with a vivid blue cap, yellow underparts, and white cheeks, a familiar visitor to European bird feeders.
songbird
Blue-gray Tanager
A common and familiar tropical tanager with soft powder-blue and gray plumage and brighter blue shoulder patches, often seen in gardens and parks.
songbird
Keel-billed Toucan
A spectacular Central American toucan with glossy black plumage, a lemon-yellow breast, and an enormous, boldly rainbow-colored bill.
other
Bluethroat
A dazzling relative of the robin, the breeding male showing a brilliant blue throat patch with a central spot, and rufous flashes at the base of the tail.
songbird
Townsend's Solitaire
A slim, gray, upright thrush relative famous for defending juniper berry territories in winter and singing a long, warbling song.
songbird
White-eared Bulbul
A dusky-grey bulbul with a black head, a bold white ear patch, and a bright yellow vent, common in gardens across the Middle East and South Asia.
songbird
Sword-billed Hummingbird
A high-Andean hummingbird with an extraordinarily long, straight bill, longer than its own body, specialized for feeding on long-tubed flowers.
hummingbird
Superb Parrot
A slender, bright green Australian parrot with a yellow face and red throat band in males, tied closely to river red gum woodlands of the Riverina.
parrot
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
A large, sooty-black cockatoo of southeastern Australia with bold yellow cheek patches and yellow tail panels, often heard calling before it is seen.
parrot
Red-whiskered Bulbul
A perky, crested bulbul with white cheeks, a small red "whisker" patch behind the eye, and a red vent, popular in gardens across South and Southeast Asia.
songbird
Purple-crested Turaco
A glossy green forest bird of southeastern Africa with a rounded purple crest and crimson flight feathers that flash brilliantly in flight.
other
Royal Tern
A large, orange-billed tern of sandy beaches and estuaries, second in size only to the Caspian Tern, often seen with a shaggy black crest streaming in the wind.
seabird
Paradise Tanager
One of the most vividly multicolored birds in the Amazon, with a turquoise head, black back, sky-blue underparts, and a glowing yellow-to-red rump.
songbird
Red-billed Oxpecker
A specialized African bird that clings to buffalo, giraffe, and other large mammals, picking off ticks with its slender red bill.
songbird
Sooty Grouse
A large, dark Pacific-coast mountain grouse, the coastal counterpart of the Dusky Grouse, known for the male's deep hooting display from tall conifers.
gamebird
Red-throated Loon
The smallest and most lightly built loon, distinguished in summer by a wine-red throat patch and a habit of holding its bill tilted upward.
seabird
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
A common southern African savanna hornbill instantly recognizable by its black-and-white plumage and oversized curved yellow bill.
other
Purple-throated Fruitcrow
A social, all-black cotinga whose males flash a glossy magenta-purple throat patch, usually seen moving through the forest canopy in small groups.
songbird
Semipalmated Plover
A small, compact plover with a single black breast band and orange legs, common on beaches and mudflats throughout the Americas during migration.
shorebird
Rufous Motmot
The largest motmot species, with rich rufous-orange underparts and head, a green back, and a long tail ending in bare-shafted racket tips.
other