Bird Identifier

Bird Encyclopedia

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

American Crow

American Crow

A highly intelligent, all-black corvid famous for its adaptability, problem-solving, and complex social behavior.

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Northwestern Crow

Northwestern Crow

A small, coastal crow of the Pacific Northwest closely resembling the American Crow and often found foraging along tidelines.

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Chihuahuan Raven

Chihuahuan Raven

A desert grassland raven, smaller than the Common Raven, with white-based neck feathers normally hidden beneath black plumage.

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Fish Crow

Fish Crow

A smaller, coastal cousin of the American Crow best told apart by its distinctive nasal, two-note call.

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Common Raven

Common Raven

A massive, highly intelligent black corvid with a wedge-shaped tail and deep croaking voice, found across a vast range of wild habitats.

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Mexican Jay

Mexican Jay

A plain blue-and-gray jay of southwestern mountain oak woodlands that lives in cooperative family flocks year-round.

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Harris's Hawk

Harris's Hawk

A dark chocolate-brown desert hawk famous for hunting cooperatively in family groups, unlike almost any other raptor.

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Olive Warbler

Olive Warbler

A pine-forest specialist with a tawny-orange head and black mask, now classified in its own unique family separate from true warblers.

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Black-billed Magpie

Black-billed Magpie

A striking black-and-white corvid with an extremely long tail and iridescent wings, common across open western rangeland.

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Canada Jay

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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Clark's Nutcracker

Clark's Nutcracker

A pale gray high-mountain corvid famous for caching tens of thousands of pine seeds each year and for its remarkable spatial memory.

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