Bird Identifier

Bird Encyclopedia

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

Yellow-throated Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

A gray-backed warbler with a bright yellow throat and bold black-and-white face pattern, well adapted for creeping along bark and probing pine needle clusters and Spanish moss.

songbird
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.

songbird
Black-throated Trogon

Black-throated Trogon

A quiet lowland-forest trogon with a black face and throat, green upperparts, and a bright yellow belly.

other
Ash-throated Flycatcher

Ash-throated Flycatcher

A pale, dry-country flycatcher with a whitish-gray throat, soft yellow belly, and rufous tail, common in western deserts and scrub.

songbird
White-throated Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

A large, boldly patterned sparrow with a crisp white throat patch and yellow lores, famous for its whistled "Oh-sweet-Canada" song.

songbird
Black-throated Green Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

A bright yellow-faced warbler with an olive-green back and a black throat and bib on breeding males, common in northern conifer and hemlock forests.

songbird
Black-throated Gray Warbler

Black-throated Gray Warbler

A crisply patterned gray, black, and white warbler of dry western woodlands, with a small yellow spot in front of the eye as its only splash of color.

songbird
Channel-billed Toucan

Channel-billed Toucan

A large South American toucan with black plumage, a yellow-orange throat and breast, and a robust, mostly black bill with a colorful base.

other
Grace's Warbler

Grace's Warbler

A gray-backed warbler of southwestern pine forests with a yellow throat and supercilium, resembling a smaller-scale Yellow-throated Warbler adapted to high pine canopy.

songbird
Narcissus Flycatcher

Narcissus Flycatcher

A small, brilliantly colored flycatcher; the male combines black upperparts with a vivid yellow-orange throat, breast, and rump.

songbird
Red-billed Leiothrix

Red-billed Leiothrix

A vividly colored, red-billed songbird nicknamed the Pekin Robin, olive-green above with orange-yellow throat and colorful wing patches.

songbird
Common Yellowthroat

Common Yellowthroat

A skulking marsh warbler with a bright yellow throat, best known for the male's bold black facial mask and witchety-witchety-witchety song.

songbird
Superb Parrot

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
Ortolan Bunting

Ortolan Bunting

A warm-toned migratory bunting with a grey-green head, yellow throat, and pink-buff underparts, breeding across open, sun-baked farmland of Europe.

songbird
Little Bee-eater

Little Bee-eater

A tiny, brilliantly colored African bee-eater with a green back, yellow throat, and black gorget, often seen perched low over grassland.

other
Hermit Warbler

Hermit Warbler

A plain-faced, bright yellow-headed warbler of Pacific mountain conifer forests, with a black throat and gray, unstreaked back, that hybridizes with the closely related Townsend's Warbler.

songbird
Wood Warbler

Wood Warbler

The brightest and most sharply patterned of the leaf warblers, with a vivid yellow throat and breast, white belly, and a distinctive accelerating trill song delivered while quivering its wings.

songbird
Wreathed Hornbill

Wreathed Hornbill

A large Asian hornbill with a low, corrugated casque and a bare throat pouch, colored yellow in males and blue in females, that plays a key role dispersing rainforest fruit seeds.

other
Australian Brushturkey

Australian Brushturkey

A large, black-bodied mound-building bird with a bare red head and neck and a yellow throat wattle, well known for the huge leaf-litter mounds it builds to incubate its eggs.

gamebird