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Pigeon-sized

133 Bird species

Aleutian Tern

A slender, gray tern of coastal Alaska. Alternate Adult has gray back, wings, and underparts, forked white tail, white face, black cap and eyeline, white forehead, thin black bill, and black legs. Basic Adult has dark primaries, white underparts, blackish smudge on shoulder, and white head with black more...

Length: 30 cm Wingspan: 74 cm

Amazon Kingfisher

Large kingfisher with massive black bill. Bronze-green head, upperparts, and tail. White throat and broad white neck collar. Has broad green streaks on the flanks. Male has large chestnut patch across chest; female shows thick but usually broken green breast band. In flight, shows white underwings an more...

Length: 30 cm Wingspan: cm

American Coot

A small, dark, duck-like rail. Adults solid charcoal gray with a white, chicken-like bill, red or white forehead, and pale yellow legs with large feet and large lobed toes. Juveniles have paler bellies, gray legs and feet and a grayer bill. Very similar to Eurasian and Caribbean Coots. Larger and les more...

Length: 39 cm Wingspan: 61 cm

Aplomado Falcon

This slim long-tailed falcon is uniquely patterned. It has slate gray upperparts, a white face and breast, with a dark crown, dark eye line and moustacial stripe, and a white stripe running behind the eye and around the nape. A dark belly band or vest separates the white breast from the russet belly, more...

Length: 38 cm Wingspan: 102 cm

Arctic Tern

One of several small white terns that do not attain full adult alternate plumage until at least their third summer (three years after hatch year), this species is slightly smaller, shorter-legged, and shorter-billed than similar Common, Forster's and Roseate terns. Alternate adult has gray back and w more...

Length: 30 cm Wingspan: 78 cm

Atlantic Puffin

Unmistakable; the only puffin found in the Atlantic Ocean. Crisply marked with black upperparts, white underparts, a black breast band, white face, orange legs, and large blue and orange bill. A bit smaller than Tufted and Horned Puffins, which are unknown from Eastern North America. Without range as more...

Length: 32 cm Wingspan: 53 cm

Audubon's Shearwater

A small, compact shearwater of the Atlantic Coast. Adult is uniformly dark above, with white underwing linings framed by black leading and trailing edges, and dark undersides to the primaries, black cap and nape, white cheeks, and thin, dark bill. At close range, a small white spot is visible in fron more...

Length: 30 cm Wingspan: 69 cm

Baikal Teal

This Asian species could be overlooked in a flock of similar Green-winged Teal. Male: Striking head pattern is distinctive, with dark crown, green nape, and buffy face with bold black line extending down from the eye. The breast is pinkish with black spots. The sides are gray with vertical white bord more...

Length: 38 cm Wingspan: 51 cm

Band-tailed Pigeon

Large, heavy pigeon with a long tail. Adult is mostly gray above with a purplish gray head and breast, and a gray belly. Yellow bill with dark tip. Dark eye with red orbital ring. White collar with an iridescent greenish sheen on nape below collar. Gray back and wings with large, dark gray wingtips. more...

Length: 37 cm Wingspan: 66 cm

Bar-tailed Godwit

This species gets its name from the black and white barring on the tail. In flight, the upper surface of the wing is gray-brown, slightly darker on the primary coverts, and lacks a wing stripe. The Siberian race shows black and white barring on the rump and lower back, and on the underside of the win more...

Length: 37 cm Wingspan: 69 cm

Bermuda Petrel

Also called Bermuda Petrel; recorded in North America off the Carolinas. Adult has dark gray nape and back with a weak blackish M pattern on the upperwings that connects across darker upper rump. Whitish U-shaped lower rump patch contrasts with dark gray tail. Shows a broad black leading edge on unde more...

Length: 38 cm Wingspan: 89 cm

Black Guillemot

In alternate plumage, adults are black with a broad white wing patch, red legs, and a slender bill. In basic plumage, mostly white with black flight feathers and mottled black back. Compared to its western counterpart, Pigeon Guillemot, Black is paler in basic plumage, and has no dark bar in the whit more...

Length: 33 cm Wingspan: 53 cm

Black Noddy

A dark, tern-like bird, rare on Texas coast and Dry Tortugas in Florida. Adult, unusual in North America, is black with white cap, slender black bill, and short black legs. Juveniles and immatures are entirely dark with sharply contrasting white cap and pale wing coverts. Brown Noddy is browner overa more...

Length: 34 cm Wingspan: 76 cm

Black-headed Gull

Despite the name, the hood of this gull is actually chocolate brown. Black-headed Gull is similar to Bonaparte's Gull, with which it often associates, but is larger, with a heavier bill. In all plumages, the undersides of the primaries are dark. Alternate Adult: The mantle is pale gray. The primaries more...

Length: 38 cm Wingspan: 90 cm

Black-legged Kittiwake

This smallish gull is short-legged and short-billed. At rest, the tail is slightly notched. Alternate Adult: Medium gray mantle, with all-white head, tail, and underparts. The legs are short and black. Bill is all yellow. At close range, note the red eye ring and gape. Basic Adult: Blackish spot on a more...

Length: 38 cm Wingspan: 93 cm

Black-necked Stilt

This shorebird is instantly recognized by its slender build, bold pattern, and ridiculously long, bright pink legs. The bill is fairly long, very fine, and slightly upturned. Adult: Upperparts are blackish (shiny black on males, more brownish on females), with a white spot above the eye. The underpar more...

Length: 35 cm Wingspan: 64 cm

Non-vegetated Areas

6 species

Clark's Nutcracker

Nucifraga columbiana

Alpine Slopes, Western Confierous Forest, Dry Western Woodlands

Prairie Falcon

Falco mexicanus

Rocky Cliffs and Gorges, Rimrocks and Mesas, Open Country and Grasslands, Deserts and Sagebrush Plains, Alpine Tundra and Meadows

Rock Pigeon

Columba livia

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

Rock Ptarmigan

Lagopus muta

Alpine Slopes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows, Boreal Forest

White-tailed Ptarmigan

Lagopus leucura

Alpine Slopes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows

Willow Ptarmigan

Lagopus lagopus

Alpine Slopes, Alpine Tundra and Meadows, Boreal Forest

Salt Water

66 species