Types of Birds

Types of Bird in the United States and North America

This list is most of the types of birds you can see in the United States. We are continually adding our bird pictures to this list so please check back with us if you don’t see the bird you are looking for. You can also email us and we will add your request.

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Accentors

Albatrosses

Anhingas

Auks, Murres, and Puffins

Atlantic Puffin

Bananaquits

Barn-Owls

Becards, Tityras, Allies

Blackbirds and Orioles

Baltimore Oriole

Eastern Meadowlark

Red Winged Blackbird

Boobies and Gannets

Bushtits

Cardinals, Grosbeaks, and Buntings

Black-headed Grosbeak

Crimson-collared Grosbeak

Flame-colored Tanager

Hepatic Tanager

Northern Cardinal

Painted Bunting

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Scarlet Tanager

Western Tanager

Chachalacas

Chickadees and Titmice

Black-Capped Chickadee

Carolina Chickadee

Tufted Titmouse

Cormorants

Cranes

Creepers

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

Black-billed Magpie

California Scrub-Jay

Chihuahuan Raven

Clark’s Nutcracker

Eurasian Jackdaw

Florida Scrub Jay

Island Scrub Jay

Northwestern Crow

Tamaulipas Crow

Woodhouse Scrub Jay

Yellow-billed Magpie

Cuckoos, Roadrunners, Anis

Black Billed Cuckoo

Greater Roadrunner

Dippers

Ducks and Geese

American Black Duck

American Wigeon

Barrow’s Goldeneye

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

Blue-winged Teal

Common Goldeneye

Common Merganser

Eurasian Wigeon

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

Greater White-fronted Goose

Green-winged Teal

Hooded Merganser

Long-tailed Duck

Northern Pintail

Northern Shoveler

Pink-footed Goose

Red-breasted Merganser

Ring-necked Duck

Spectacled Eider

Steller’s Eider

White-cheeked Pintail

White-winged Scoter

Whooper Swan

Falcons

American Kestrel

Aplomado Falcon

Crested Caracara

Eurasian Hobby

Eurasian Kestrel

Peregrine Falcon

Finches

American Goldfinch

Black Rosy-Finch

Brown-capped Rosy-Finch

Cassin’s Finch

Evening Grosbeak

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

Lawrence’s Goldfinch

Lesser Goldfinch

White-winged Crossbill

Flamingos

Frigatebirds

Gnatcatchers

Black-capped Gnatcatcher

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

California Gnatcatcher

Grassbirds and Allies

Grebes

Clark’s Grebe

Eared Grebe

Horned Grebe

Least Grebe

Pied-billed Grebe

Red-necked Grebe

Western Grebe

Gulls and Terns

California Gull

Hawks and Eagles

Broad winged hawk

Common Black Hawk

Ferruginous Hawk

Eurasian Kestrel

Harris’s Hawk

Hook-billed Kite

Mississippi Kite

Northern Goshawk

Northern Harrier

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Rough-legged Hawk

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Short-tailed Hawk

Swainson’s Hawk

Swallow-tailed Kite

White-tailed Hawk

White-tailed Kite

Zone-tailed Hawk

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

American Bittern

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Great Blue Heron

Green Heron

Least Bittern

Little Blue Heron

Little Egret

Reddish Egret

Snowy Egret

Tricolored Heron

Western Reef-Heron

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Hummingbirds

Allen’s Hummingbird

Anna’s Hummingbird

Berylline Hummingbird

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Blue-throated Hummingbird

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Broad-billed Hummingbird

Buff-bellied Hummingbird

Calliope Hummingbird

Costa’s Hummingbird

Green-breasted Mango

Lucifer Hummingbird

Mexican Violetear

Plain-capped Starthroat

Rivoli’s Hummingbird

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Rufous Hummingbird

Violet-crowned Hummingbird

White-eared Hummingbird

Ibises and Spoonbills

Roseate Spoonbill

Jacanas

Kingfishers

Belted Kingfisher

Green Kingfisher

Kinglets

Larks

Leaf Warblers

Limpkin

Longspurs and Snow Buntings

Loons

Lovebirds and Australasian Parrots

Mockingbirds and Thrashers

California Thrasher

New World Quail

California Quail

New World Sparrows

California Towhee

Dark Eyed Junco

New World Vultures

California Condor

Nightjars

Northern Storm-Petrels

Nuthatches

Brown-headed Nuthatch

White Breasted Nuthatch

Old World Flycatchers

Old World Sparrows

Olive Warbler

Osprey

Owls

Eastern Screech Owl

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl

Flammulated Owl

Great Horned Owl

Northern Hawk Owl

Northern Pygmy-Owl

Northern Saw-whet Owl

Short eared Owl

Western Screech Owl

Whiskered Screech-Owl

Oystercatchers

American Oystercatcher

Parrots and allies

Red Crowned Parrot

Pelicans

American White Pelican

Pheasants and Grouse

Greater Sage Grouse

Pigeons and Doves

Plovers

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

American Coot Picture

Sandpipers

Greater Yellowlegs

Shearwaters and Petrels

Shrikes

Silky-flycatchers

Skuas and Jaegers

Southern Storm Petrels

Spindalises

Starling and Mynas

European Starling

Stilts and Avocets

Black Necked Stilt

Storks

Storm-Petrels

Swallows

Swifts

Sylviid Warblers

Tanagers

Western Tanager

Thrushes

Aztec Thrush

Aztec Thrush

Bicknell’s Thrush

Clay-colored Thrush

Clay-colored Thrush

Eastern Bluebird

Gray-cheeked Thrush

Hermit Thrush

Mountain Bluebird

Redwing

Rufous-backed Robin

Swainson’s Thrush

Townsend’s Solitaire

Varied Thrush

Veery

White-throated Thrush

Trogons

Tropicbirds

Tyrant Flycatchers

Alder Flycatcher

Eastern Kingbird

Western Kingbird

Vireos

Blue-headed Vireo

Wagtails and Pipits

Waxbills

Waxwings

Wood Warblers

Black-and-white Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Cerulean Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Connecticut Warbler

Black Throated Blue Warbler

Prothonotary Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

Woodpeckers

Acorn Woodpecker

American Three-toed Woodpecker

Arizona Woodpecker

Black-backed Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Gila Woodpecker

Golden-fronted Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Lewis’s Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Nuttall’s Woodpecker

Pileated Woodpecker

Red bellied Woodpecker

Red-breasted Sapsucker

Red-cockaded Woodpecker

Red-headed Woodpecker

Red-naped Sapsucker

White-headed Woodpecker

Williamson’s Sapsucker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Wrens

Yellow-breasted Chat