Bird Encyclopedia

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

Tree Swallow

A gleaming blue-green and white cavity-nesting swallow, one of the earliest swallows to arrive each spring and among the most cold-hardy.

A long-necked, long-legged tawny-orange waterfowl with a distinctive whistling call, found in freshwater marshes across warm regions worldwide.

A shimmering western swallow with an iridescent green back, violet rump, and white patches that nearly wrap around the face and flanks.

A gray, crested songbird with a black forehead patch, white underparts, and rusty flanks, common at eastern U.S. feeders.

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

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

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

A rusty-capped sparrow with a bicolored bill and a dark central breast spot, a true winter visitor to much of North America despite its name.

A small, compact, blue-gray and yellow warbler with a distinctive bicolored bill, closely tied to hanging Spanish moss or Usnea lichen for nesting.