Bird Identifier

Bird Encyclopedia

Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.

Eastern Meadowlark

Eastern Meadowlark

A grassland songbird with a bright yellow breast crossed by a bold black V and a rich, flute-like whistled song.

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Yellow-throated Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo

A canopy-dwelling eastern vireo with a bright yellow throat and spectacles, olive back, and a slow, burry song.

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Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

The brightest and most yellow of the eastern Empidonax flycatchers, breeding in boggy boreal forest and giving a soft, plaintive whistled call.

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Common Grackle

Common Grackle

A large, iridescent blackbird with a long keel-shaped tail and pale yellow eyes, common across eastern and central North America.

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Nashville Warbler

Nashville Warbler

A small, active warbler with a gray head, bold white eyering, olive back, and bright yellow underparts, occurring in two disjunct eastern and western breeding populations.

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Prothonotary Warbler

Prothonotary Warbler

A brilliant golden-yellow warbler of southern swamps, unique among eastern warblers for nesting in tree cavities near or over water.

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Scarlet Tanager

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.

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Great Crested Flycatcher

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.

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Philadelphia Vireo

Philadelphia Vireo

The smallest eastern vireo, with a yellow-washed underside and dark eye line, breeding in northern second-growth woodlands and often confused with Warbling Vireo and Tennessee Warbler.

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Golden-winged Warbler

Golden-winged Warbler

A gray-and-white warbler with a bold golden wing patch and yellow crown, once common in shrubby eastern habitat but now steeply declining and prone to hybridizing with Blue-winged Warbler.

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Hooded Warbler

Hooded Warbler

A vivid yellow-faced warbler of eastern forest understory whose males wear a bold black hood, and which flashes white outer tail feathers as it flicks its tail while foraging.

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