Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Greater Bird-of-paradise
A spectacular New Guinea bird-of-paradise famed for the male's cascading golden-yellow flank plumes, displayed in dramatic communal courtship dances high in the rainforest canopy.
songbird
Wilson's Bird-of-paradise
A small, dazzlingly colored bird-of-paradise found only on two Indonesian islands, with a bare turquoise crown and curled violet tail wires.
songbird
Raggiana Bird-of-paradise
The national bird of Papua New Guinea, known for the male's spectacular fanned display of orange-red flank plumes.
songbird
Superb Bird-of-paradise
A montane bird-of-paradise whose male transforms into an oval black cape with a glowing blue breast shield during his famous dancing display.
songbird
King Bird-of-paradise
A tiny, jewel-like bird-of-paradise with a crimson-and-white body and two wire-thin tail plumes tipped with emerald discs.
songbird
Greater Rhea
South America's largest bird, a flightless grassland species with shaggy gray-brown plumage resembling a smaller relative of the Ostrich.
other
Greater Coucal
A large, crow-sized cuckoo-family bird with glossy black body, chestnut wings, and a deep, resonant booming call.
other
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
Greater Flamingo
The largest and palest flamingo species, widespread across Africa, southern Europe, and Asia.
wading-bird
Greater Roadrunner
A large, fast-running ground cuckoo of the desert Southwest, made famous in cartoons, that sprints after prey with its shaggy crest raised and long tail trailing behind.
other
Greater Scaup
A rounded-headed diving duck of large open waters, the drake showing a glossy greenish-black head and pale gray back, closely resembling the smaller Lesser Scaup.
waterfowl
Greater Yellowlegs
A tall, elegant sandpiper with bright yellow legs and a loud, ringing alarm call that has earned it the nickname "telltale."
shorebird
Greater Sage-Grouse
The largest North American grouse, famous for males' spectacular strutting display with inflated air sacs on communal leks scattered across the sagebrush sea.
gamebird
Greater American Flamingo
The most vividly pink flamingo species, found in coastal wetlands of the Caribbean, Yucatan, and Galapagos.
wading-bird
Greater Prairie-Chicken
A heavily barred prairie grouse famous for the male's booming courtship display, featuring orange air sacs and erect pinnae feathers on communal leks.
gamebird
Greater Blue-eared Starling
A widespread African starling with glossy blue-green plumage and a violet-blue ear patch, often confused with the closely related Lesser Blue-eared Starling.
songbird
Greater White-fronted Goose
A brown goose with a white patch around the base of the bill and irregular black barring on the belly.
waterfowl
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
A glossy black forest drongo with a spiky forehead crest and two extraordinary wire-like tail streamers ending in rackets.
songbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
An elegant pale gray flycatcher with an extraordinarily long, deeply forked tail and salmon-pink flanks, a signature bird of Texas and Oklahoma grasslands.
songbird
Paradise Shelduck
A large, strikingly dimorphic New Zealand duck, the female with a bright white head and chestnut body and the male mostly black with a grey-flecked back, commonly seen grazing on farmland.
waterfowl
Blue Crane
South Africa's national bird, a pale blue-grey crane with an oversized head and dark wingtip plumes that trail like a train.
wading-bird
African Paradise Flycatcher
An elegant sub-Saharan African songbird with a glossy blue-black crested head, chestnut plumage, and long trailing tail streamers in males.
songbird
Grey Go-away-bird
A pale grey, crested relative of the turacos, named for its nasal, far-carrying call that sounds like it is saying "go-away."
other
Great Shearwater
A trans-equatorial migrant shearwater with a sharply defined dark cap and white collar, breeding on remote South Atlantic islands and wintering across the North Atlantic.
seabird