Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Noisy Miner
A grey, black-capped honeyeater that lives in large, highly social, aggressive colonies and often dominates other birds in its territory.
songbird
Bell Miner
A small, olive-green colonial honeyeater famous for its incessant, high-pitched, bell-like tinkling call, usually heard before it is seen.
songbird
Noisy Pitta
A brilliantly coloured, shy rainforest ground bird known for its loud 'walk-to-work' call and habit of smashing snails on rocks.
songbird
Brown-eared Bulbul
A large, noisy grey bulbul with a distinctive chestnut-brown ear patch and a loud, far-carrying call.
songbird
Laughing Gull
A common, noisy coastal gull of the eastern and Gulf coasts, named for its raucous, laugh-like call.
seabird
Fieldfare
A striking grey-headed thrush that arrives in large, noisy flocks each winter to strip hedgerows and orchards of berries.
songbird
Pinyon Jay
A uniformly blue, crestless, highly social jay of pinyon-juniper woodlands that lives in large, noisy flocks year-round.
songbird
Little Corella
A gregarious white cockatoo of inland Australia with pale blue-grey eye-rings, often seen in huge, noisy flocks.
parrot
Common Murre
A slender, penguin-like auk with a dark brown-black back and white underparts, breeding in dense, noisy cliff colonies.
seabird
Russet-backed Oropendola
A large, olive-brown to russet Amazonian icterid with a pale bill, forming noisy colonies of long hanging woven nests.
songbird
Common Bulbul
A plain brown, noisy, and highly social African songbird known for its cheerful bubbling call and bright yellow undertail.
songbird
Common Starling
A glossy, iridescent black bird famous for its speckled winter plumage, noisy chattering song, and spectacular murmuration flocks.
songbird
Bushtit
A tiny, plain gray-brown songbird that travels in noisy, tumbling flocks and builds an elaborate hanging sock-like nest.
songbird
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
Yellow-rumped Cacique
A noisy, colonial black-and-yellow icterid with a bright yellow rump and wing patch, often nesting near wasp colonies for protection.
songbird
Jungle Babbler
A drab, noisy, sociable babbler almost always seen in chattering flocks of half a dozen or more, earning it the nickname 'Seven Sisters.'
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
Long-tailed Tit
A tiny, round-bodied songbird with an extremely long tail and soft pink, black, and white plumage, usually seen in noisy roving flocks.
songbird
Vinous-throated Parrotbill
A tiny, cinnamon-brown, long-tailed songbird with a stubby parrot-like bill, usually seen moving through scrub in noisy, gregarious flocks.
songbird
Red Wattlebird
A large, noisy honeyeater with streaky grey-brown plumage, a bright yellow belly patch, and a fleshy pinkish-red wattle hanging below the eye.
songbird
Southern Lapwing
A bold, noisy lapwing of South American grasslands and wetlands, easily recognized by its black chest markings, red eye-ring, and loud alarm calls.
shorebird
Whitehead
A small, sociable North Island endemic songbird with a plain grey-brown body and a distinctive whitish head, usually encountered in noisy, active foraging flocks.
songbird
Common Redshank
A medium-sized, noisy sandpiper of European wetlands, nicknamed "the warden of the marshes" for its loud alarm calls, and easily told by its bright orange-red legs.
shorebird
Apostlebird
A dusty grey, ground-foraging Australian bird famous for moving through open woodland in noisy, cooperative family groups traditionally said to number around twelve.
songbird