Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Canada Goose
A familiar large goose with a black head and neck, white chinstrap, and brown body, common on lawns and lakes across North America.
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Cackling Goose
A smaller, stubby-billed look-alike of the Canada Goose, formerly considered the same species.
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Canada Warbler
A slate-gray and yellow warbler notable for the bold necklace of black streaking across its breast and the yellow "spectacles" framing its eyes.
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Canada Jay
The official current name for the Gray Jay, a fluffy, remarkably tame boreal-forest corvid famous for hoarding food and visiting campsites.
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Barnacle Goose
A compact black, white, and grey goose with a striking cream-white face, famous for nesting on sheer Arctic cliffs.
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Bean Goose
A large, dark-headed grey goose of northern Eurasia named for its habit of feeding in fields of beans and grain during migration.
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Snow Goose
A bright white goose with black wingtips, often traveling in enormous flocks; a dark 'blue' color morph also exists.
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Ross's Goose
A small, compact white goose resembling a miniature Snow Goose with a shorter, stubbier bill.
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Greylag Goose
A large bulky gray-brown goose, ancestor of most domestic geese, with a heavy orange bill.
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Egyptian Goose
A bulky, long-legged African waterfowl with a distinctive dark eye patch, chestnut breast patch, and pink legs.
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Emperor Goose
A stocky, silvery-grey goose with a scaled feather pattern, a white head and hindneck, and a strong preference for rocky Arctic and subarctic coastlines.
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Spur-winged Goose
The Spur-winged Goose is Africa's largest waterfowl species, named for the sharp spurs on its wings and its bare red facial skin.
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Bar-headed Goose
A pale gray goose famous for migrating at extreme altitudes over the Himalayas, marked by two black bars on the head.
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Pink-footed Goose
A medium-sized grey goose with a compact dark head, pink legs and bill band, best known for spectacular wintering flocks in Britain.
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Greater White-fronted Goose
A brown goose with a white patch around the base of the bill and irregular black barring on the belly.
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Brant
A small, dark sea goose with a stubby black bill and neck, closely tied to coastal eelgrass beds.
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Nene
Hawaii's state bird and the world's rarest goose, a buff-necked, black-faced goose descended from Canada Geese that adapted to life on volcanic terrain.
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Atlantic Canary
A small, streaky yellow-green finch native to the Canary Islands, Azores, and Madeira, and the wild ancestor of the familiar Domestic Canary.
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Northern Gannet
The largest seabird in the North Atlantic, gleaming white with black wingtips and a golden-buff wash on the head, famous for spectacular high-speed plunge dives after fish.
seabird
Domestic Canary
The domesticated form of the wild Atlantic Canary, bred over centuries into many color and song varieties from its natural yellow-green ancestor.
songbird
Maned Duck
A common Australian duck, also called the Australian Wood Duck, known for its dark maned head and its habit of grazing on grass far from water.
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Australian Wood Duck
A distinctive grey-brown duck with a dark chocolate head and small mane, more often seen grazing on grass than swimming.
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Calliope Hummingbird
The smallest breeding bird in the United States and Canada, best known for the male's streaked magenta throat rays.
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Harris's Sparrow
North America's largest sparrow, with a black hood and bib framing a pink bill, breeding only in Canada and wintering on the Great Plains.
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