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91 Bird Species

Budgerigar

Tiny parakeet with small yellow or grayish bill and long pointed tail. Natural variation adult: blue patch and two black dots head. Clean yellow forehead, loral area and throat. Yellow face, nape, back and wings barred in black. Gray wingtips. Green underparts and dark tail. Blue feet. Yellow wing st more...

Length: 18 cm Wingspan: 30 cm

Cackling Goose

Superficially similar to the larger Canada Goose, with brownish body, black head and neck, and white cheek patches. Cackling Goose is smaller overall, with proportionally shorter neck, a much shorter, steep-sloped bill, and proportionally longer wings. Often exhibits a white ring at the base of neck. more...

Length: 56 cm Wingspan: 109 cm

California Gull

A medium-sized, long-winged four-year gull of Western North America. There are two subspecies, the more northerly and interior breeding "albertaensis," which is larger and tends to be paler above as an adult and the more southerly and coastal breeding "californicus," which averages smaller and darker more...

Length: 53 cm Wingspan: 137 cm

Canada Goose

Local introductions and reintroductions have made this large goose a familiar sight throughout North America. In terms of size and coloration variability, this species has few rivals, thus the number of recognized subspecies has been the subject of much debate. All forms share a black head and neck w more...

Length: 64 cm Wingspan: 127 cm

Carolina Chickadee

Displays the somewhat unique chickadee head pattern, black cap, white cheeks, and black bib. The nape, back and wings are gray. Underparts are mostly white or pale gray with pale buffy flanks. Bill is very short, thin, and pointed. Similar to Black-capped, which is brighter, larger with a larger head more...

Length: 12 cm Wingspan: 19 cm

Chimney Swift

Common summer resident of Eastern North America. Adult is swallow-like, with cigar-shaped body, thinner wings, and quicker wingbeats than swallows; plumage is sooty-brown overall without black or white markings. Slightly larger than the nearly identical Vaux's Swift of Western U.S.; virtually indisti more...

Length: 13 cm Wingspan: 36 cm

Common Chaffinch

Distinctive medium-sized finch. Adult male: Brownish face with dark eye. Black forehead with gray crown and extensive gray nape. Medium-length conical bill is grayish. Brownish-pink breast blending with blurry white belly and clean white undertail coverts. Rich brown back and scapulars. Black wings more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: 24 cm

Common Gallinule

A coot-like waterbird. Alternate adult has gray body, dark brown back, blackish head, white undertail coverts, white edging along flanks, and bright red bill with yellow tip. Base of bill rises shield-like in front of forehead. Legs are greenish-yellow. Basic adult lacks shield, has dusky bill with y more...

Length: 36 cm Wingspan: 53 cm

Common Myna

This Asian species has been established in Southern Florida. The body plumage is brown overall with white undertail coverts and a black hood, which contrasts with the yellow bill and bare skin around the eye. The wing and tail feathers are blackish, with white tips on the tail feathers and a white pa more...

Length: 23 cm Wingspan: 46 cm

Common Nighthawk

A slender, long-winged, partly nocturnal bird, widespread across North America. Adult is cryptically plumaged when perched, with long black primaries extending past tail, white wing spot underneath shoulder, softly-patterned upperparts marbled and spotted with brown and black tones, buffy or whitish more...

Length: 24 cm Wingspan: 61 cm

Common Raven

Large, all glossy black. Very heavy bill with curved culmen. Shaggy feathers on throat. Wings and tail are fairly long. Separated from crows by its much heavier bill, larger size, and wedge-shaped tail. Flight is more raptor-like than crows with proportionally longer tail and wings. Chihuahuan Raven more...

Length: 61 cm Wingspan: 135 cm

Common Swift

Large dark long-winged Eurasian swift with a long deeply-forked tail and contrasting pale throat. Adult: Very dark body and wings; black with a brownish cast. Scaly appearance owing to slightly browner fringes of feathers. Contrasting whitish throat. Flight feathers slightly paler than wing linings a more...

Length: 16 cm Wingspan: 38 cm

Cooper's Hawk

A crow-sized accipiter with a long tail and rounded wings. Females are noticeably larger than males. The crown is flat, forming a straight line from the bill to the forehead. Adults: Blue-gray above, with rusty barring on the breast and wing linings. The dark crown contrasts with the pale nape, creat more...

Length: 36 cm Wingspan: 69 cm

Cuban Martin

Large swallow with long wings and long dark deeply-forked tail. Adult male: Glossy, entirely dark purple plumage. Adult female: Entirely dark upper parts with brownish-dusky throat, breast and flanks contrasting with white belly. Dusky underwing. Juvenile: Similar to adult female, but slightly paler. more...

Length: 19 cm Wingspan: 39 cm

Downy Woodpecker

This is the smallest and one of the most widespread woodpeckers in North America. Upperparts are mostly black, with a trough of white down the middle of the back, white spots on the wings, and white outer tail feathers with black bars. The head shows bold white stripes above and below the eye, expand more...

Length: 17 cm Wingspan: 28 cm

Eastern Screech-Owl

A small, yellow-eyed owl with ear tufts of Eastern North America. Adult is gray-brown or rufous-red overall with black streaks crossed by definite horizontal bars underneath, subtly patterned wings, gray face with black border, and light gray bill. Sexes are similar. Western Screech-Owl has dark bill more...

Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 51 cm

Non-vegetated Areas

8 species

Barn Owl

Tyto alba

Rocky Cliffs and Gorges, Rimrocks and Mesas, Saltmarshes, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains

Barn Swallow

Hirundo rustica

Rocky Cliffs and Gorges, Rimrocks and Mesas, Saltmarshes, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands, Oak Savannah and Woodlands

Brown-capped Rosy-Finch

Leucosticte australis

Alpine Slopes, Rocky Cliffs and Gorges, Bare Rocky Slopes, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Alpine Tundra and Meadows

Common Raven

Corvus corax

Rocky Cliffs and Gorges, Rimrocks and Mesas, Beaches, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Chapparal, Boreal Forest, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Western Confierous Forest, Dry Western Woodlands

Great Horned Owl

Bubo virginianus

Rimrocks and Mesas, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Clearcuts, Boreal Forest, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest, Western Confierous Forest, Dry Western Woodlands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Peregrine Falcon

Falco peregrinus

Rocky Cliffs and Gorges, Rimrocks and Mesas, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Urban Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Open Country and Grasslands, Alpine Tundra and Meadows

Red-tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis

Rocky Cliffs and Gorges, Rimrocks and Mesas, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Chapparal, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Dry Western Woodlands, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Rock Pigeon

Columba livia

Rocky Cliffs and Gorges, Rimrocks and Mesas, Urban Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands

Salt Water

36 species

American Wigeon

Anas americana

Estuaries and Bays, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers

Antillean Nighthawk

Chordeiles gundlachii

Beaches, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Open Country and Grasslands, Shrubby Slopes

Barn Owl

Tyto alba

Rocky Cliffs and Gorges, Rimrocks and Mesas, Saltmarshes, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains

Barn Swallow

Hirundo rustica

Rocky Cliffs and Gorges, Rimrocks and Mesas, Saltmarshes, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands, Oak Savannah and Woodlands

Black-headed Gull

Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Estuaries and Bays, Inshore Waters, Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Sewage Treatment Plants, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Open Country and Grasslands

Black-tailed Gull

Larus crassirostris

Estuaries and Bays, Inshore Waters, Rocky Shores, Coastal Cliffs, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes

Boat-tailed Grackle

Quiscalus major

Beaches, Tidal Mudflats and Shallows, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Lakes Resevoirs, Ponds and Rivers, Open Country and Grasslands

Brewer's Blackbird

Euphagus cyanocephalus

Beaches, Urban Landscapes, Suburban/residential Landscapes, Fresh Water Marshes, Open Country and Grasslands, Chapparal, Clearcuts, Northern Wooded Swamps