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Backyard Bird List

United States and Canada

Common Bird Names - B

  • Blackbird, crow, or purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)

  • Bluebird (Sialia sialis)

  • Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus)

  • Bunting, black-throated or dickcissel (Spiza americana)

  • Bunting, snow (Passerina nivalis)

  • Buzzard, turkey, or turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)

Common Bird Names - C

  • Cardinal

  • Catbird (Galeoscoptes carolinensis)

  • Cedar-bird, or Cedar waxwing (Ampelis cedrorum)

  • Chat, yellow-breasted (Icteria virens)

  • Chewink, or towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)

  • Chickadee (Parus atricapillus)

  • Cow-bunting, or cowbird (Molothrus ater)

  • Creeper, brown (Certhia familiaris americana)

  • Crow, American (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

  • Cuckoo, black-billed (Coccyzux erythrophthalmus)

  • Cuckoo, European

  • Cuckoo, yellow-billed (Coccyzus americanus)

Common Bird Names - D

  • Dickcissel. SEE Black-throated Bunting

  • Dove, turtle, or mourning dove (Zenaidura macroura)

  • Duck, wood (Aix sponsa)

Common Bird Names - E

  • Eagle, bald (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

  • Eagle, golden (Aquila chrysaetos)

Common Bird Names - F

  • Finch, grass. SEE Field Sparrow

  • Finch, pine, OR Pine Siskin (Spinus pinus)

  • Finch, purple, OR Linnet (Carpodacus purpureus)

  • Flicker

  • Flycatcher, great crested (Myiarchus crinitus)

  • Flycatcher, OR green-crested pewee (Empidonax
    virescens)

  • Flycatcher, white-eyed. SEE Vireo, white-eyed

  • Fox, gray sparrow

Common Bird Names - G

  • Gnatcatcher, blue-gray (Polioptila caerulea)

  • Goldfinch, American (Astragalinus tristis)

  • Grackle, purple. SEE Blackbird, crow

  • Grosbeak, blue (Guiraca caerulea)

  • Grosbeak, cardinal OR cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

  • Grosbeak, rose-breasted (Zamelodia ludoviciana)

  • Grouse, ruffed. SEE Partridge

Common Bird Names - H

  • Hawk, pigeon

  • Hawk, red-shouldered (Buteo lineatus)

  • Hawk, red-tailed (Buteo borealis)

  • Hawk, sharp-shinned (Accipiter velox)

  • Heron, great blue (Ardea herodias)

  • High-hole. SEE Flicker

  • Hummingbird, ruby-throated (Trochilus colubris)

Common Bird Names - I

Common Bird Names - J

Common Bird Names - K

  • Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)

  • Kinglet, golden-crowned (Regulus satrapa)

  • Kinglet, ruby-crowned (Regulus calendula)

Common Bird Names - L

  • Lark, shore, OR horned lark (Otocoris alpestris).

Common Bird Names - M

  • Martin, purple (Progne subis)

  • Meadowlark (sturnella magna)

  • Merganser, red-breasted (Merganser serrator)

  • Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos).

Common Bird Names - N

  • Nightingale

  • Nuthatch, (Sitta)

Common Bird Names - O

  • Oriole, Baltimore (Icterus galbula)

  • Oriole, orchard. SEE Starling, orchard

  • Osprey. SEE Hawk, fish

  • Owl, screech (megascops asio)

Common Bird Names - P

  • Partridge, OR ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus)

  • Pewee. SEE Phoebe-bird

  • Pewee, green-crested. SEE Flycatcher, green-crested

  • Pewee, wood (Contopus virens)

  • Phoebe-bird, OR pewee (Sayornis phoebe)

  • Pigeon, wild, OR passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)

  • Pipit, American, OR titlark (Anthus pensilvanicus)

Common Bird Names - Q

  • Quail, OR bob-white (Colinus virginianus).

Common Bird Names - R

  • Red-bird, summer, OR summer tanager (Piranga rubra)

  • Red-bird, Virginia. SEE Grosbeak, cardinal

  • Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)

  • Robin (Merula migratoria)

Common Bird Names - S

  • Sandpiper, solitary (Helodromas solitarius)

  • Snipe

  • Snowbird, OR slate-colored junco (Junco hyemalis)

  • Sparrow, bush. SEE Wood Sparrow

  • Sparrow, Canada, OR tree sparrow (Spizella monticola)

  • Sparrow, English. SEE Sparrow, house

  • Sparrow, field, OR vesper sparrow, OR grass finch (Poaecetes gramineus). SEE ALSO Wood Sparrow

  • Sparrow, fox (Passerella iliaca)

  • Sparrow, house, OR English sparrow (Passer domesticus)

  • Sparrow, savanna (Passerculus sandwichensis savanna)

  • Sparrow, social, OR chipping sparrow, OR chippie, OR hairbird (Spizella socialis)

  • Sparrow, song (Melospiza cinerea melodia)

  • Sparrow, swamp (Melospiza georgiana)

  • Sparrow, tree. SEE Sparrow, Canada

  • Sparrow, vesper. SEE Sparrow, field

  • Sparrow, white-crowned (Zonotrichia leucophrys)

  • Sparrow, white-throated (Zonotrichia albicollis)

  • Sparrow, wood, OR bush sparrow, OR field sparrow (Spizella pusilla)

  • Starling, orchard, OR orchard oriole (Icterus spurius)

  • Swallow, barn (Hirundo erythrogastra).

  • Swallow, chimney, OR chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica).

  • Swallow, cliff (Petrochelidon lunifrons).

  • Swallow, rough-winged (Stelgidopteryx serripennis)

Common Bird Names - T

  • Tanager, scarlet (Piranga erythromelas)

  • Tanager, summer. SEE Red-bird, summer

  • Tern, sooty (sterna fuliginosa)

  • Thrush, golden-crowned, OR wood-wagtail, OR Oven Bird (Seiurus aurocapillus)

  • Thrush, gray-cheeked (Hylocichla alicae)

  • Thrush, hermit (Hylocichla guttata pallasii)

  • Thrush, olive-backed, OR Swainson's thrush (Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni)

  • Thrush, red, OR mavis, OR Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)

  • Thrush, varied (Ixoreus naevius)

  • Thrush, Wilson's. SEE Veery

  • Thrush, wood (Hylocichla mustelina)

  • Titlark. SEE Pipit, American

  • Titmouse, gray-crested, OR tufted titmouse (Baelophus bicolor)

  • Turkey, wild (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris)

Common Bird Names - V

  • Veery, OR Wilson's thrush (Hylocichla fuscescens)

  • Vireo, red-eyed (Vireo olivaceus)

  • Vireo, solitary, OR blue-headed vireo (Vireo solitarius)

  • Vireo, warbling (Vireo gilvus)

  • Vireo, white-eyed, OR white-eyed flycatcher (Vireo noveboracensis)

  • Vireo, yellow-throated, OR yellow-breasted flycatcher (Vireo flavifrons).

Common Bird Names - W

  • Wagtail. SEE Water-thrush AND Thrush, golden-crowned

  • Warbler, Audubon's (Dendroica auduboni)

  • Warbler, bay-breasted (Dendroica castanea)

  • Warbler, black and white (Mniotilta varia)

  • Warbler, black and yellow, OR magnolia warbler (Dendroica maculosa)

  • Warbler, Blackburnian (Dendroica blackburniae)

  • Warbler, black-poll (Dendroica striata)

  • Warbler, black-throated blue, OR blue-backed warbler (Dendroica caerulescens)

  • Warbler, black-throated green, OR green-backed warbler (Dendroica virens)

  • Warbler, blue-winged (Helminthophila pinus)

  • Warbler, blue yellow-backed, OR northern parula warbler
    (Compsothlypis americana usneae)

  • Warbler, Canada (Wilsonia canadensis).

  • Warbler, cerulean (Dendroica caerulea).

  • Warbler, chestnut-sided (Dendroica pensylvanica).

  • Warbler, hooded (Wilsonia mitrata).

  • Warbler, Kentucky (Geothlypis formosa).

  • Warbler, mourning (Geothlypis philadelphia).

  • Warbler, Swainson's (Helinaia swainsonii).

  • Warbler, worm-eating (Helmitheros vermivorus).

  • Warbler, yellow (Dendroica aestiva).

  • Warbler, yellow red-poll, OR yellow palm warbler (Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea)

  • Warbler, yellow-rumped, OR Myrtle Warbler (Dendroica coronata)

  • Water-thrush, Louisiana, OR large-billed water thrush (Seiurus noveboracensis)

  • Water-thrush, northern (Seiurus noveboracensis)

  • Woodpecker, downy (Dryobates pubescens medianus)

  • Woodpecker, golden-winged, OR High-Hole, OR Flicker, OR Yarup, OR Yellow-hammer (Colaptes auratus luteus)

  • Woodpecker, red-headed (Melanerpes erythrocephalus)

  • Woodpecker, yellow-bellied, OR Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)

  • Wood-wagtail. SEE Golden Crowned Thrush

  • Wren, Carolina (Thryothorus ludovicianus)

  • Wren, house (Troglodytes Aedon)

  • Wren, ruby-crowned. SEE Ruby Crowned Kinglet

  • Wren, winter (Olbiorchilus hiemalis)

Common Bird Names - Y

  • Yarup OR Yellow-Hammer. SEE Flicker

  • Yellow-throat, Maryland, OR Northern Yellow-Throat (Geothlypis trichas brachydactyla)

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