The northern harrier (Circus hudsonius ) is a bird of prey. It breeds throughout the northern parts of the northern hemisphere in Canada and the northernmost USA. The northern harrier migrates to more southerly areas in winter with breeding birds in...
The purple finch (Haemorhous purpureus ) is a bird in the finch family, Fringillidae.
The Red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus) is a small American songbird. It is somewhat warbler-like but not closely related to the New World warblers (Parulidae).
The White-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) is a member of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae.
The Red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) is a small songbird that breeds in North America. These tiny birds eat mainly insects and seeds and their habit of wedging a large food item in a crevice and then hacking at it with their strong bills...
Little auks (Alle alle) are small seabirds that live on islands in the high Arctic. They can fly and are excellent swimmers (appearing to "fly") and divers, but their walking appears clumsy.
The Great black-backed gull (Larus marinus ) is the largest member of the gull family. Described by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as "the king of the Atlantic waterfront", it is a very aggressive hunter, pirate, and scavenger.
The Common eider is a large sea-duck that is distributed over the northern coasts of Europe, North America and eastern Siberia.
The veery (Catharus fuscescens) is a small North American thrush species. This bird is named for its common call and its specific name fuscescens is New Latin for "blackish".
The Common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is a medium-sized sea duck named for its golden-yellow eye. Its closest relative is the similar Barrow's goldeneye. The genus name of the Common goldeneye comes from the Ancient Greek boukephalos and can be...
The Ruby-crowned kinglet (Corthylio calendula) is a very small passerine bird found throughout North America. It is one of the smallest songbirds in North America. Although the Ruby-crowned kinglet is a member of the kinglet family it is not closely...
The Common murre (Uria aalge) is a large auk that has a circumpolar distribution. These birds are excellent swimmers and divers (appearing to "fly" in water), but clumsy on land. They are not very agile flyers but are more maneuverable underwater....
The razorbill (Alca torda) is a colonial seabird and the only extant member of the genus Alca of the family Alcidae, the auks. It is the closest living relative of the extinct Great auk. In 1918, the razorbill was protected in the United States by...
The Evening grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertina) is a passerine bird found in North America. The genus Hesperiphona was introduced by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850; it originates from Ancient Greek and Latin words and means "evening" and "cry."
The Pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator) is one of the largest species in the true finch family. It is found in northern Eurasia and North America. The scientific name of this species roughly translates to "the bird that lives in the pines and shells...
The ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family (Parulidae). It may sometimes be confused by the untrained for a thrush.
The Great skua (Stercorarius skua) is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It mainly eats fish caught at the sea surface or taken from other birds. The Great skua is sometimes known by the name bonxie in Britain.
Blue-winged teal (Spatula discors) are small members of the dabbling duck group found in North America. They are often the first ducks to migrate south in the fall and the last ones to return in the spring. During migration, some Blue-winged teal...
The Greater scaup (Aythya marila) is a diving duck also known as scaup in Europe or, colloquially, "bluebill" in North America. The name of this bird may come from "scalp", a Scottish and Northern English word for a shellfish bed, or from the duck's...
The Yellow-rumped warbler (Setophaga coronata) is a small North American bird species that is often seen all across the continent. The species combines four closely related forms: the eastern myrtle warbler (spp. coronata ); its western counterpart,...
Eastern wood pewees (Contopus virens) are small energetic tyrant flycatchers from North America. Despite their small size these birds can be quite aggressive during the nesting period and don't hesitate to attack intruders.
The Red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator) is a diving duck, one of the many bird species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, where it was given the binomial name Mergus serrator. The...
Common redpolls (Acanthis flammea) are small birds in the finch family. They are remarkably resistant to cold temperatures and their winter movements are mainly connected with the availability of food.
The King eider (Somateria spectabilis) is a large sea duck that breeds along the Northern Hemisphere Arctic coasts of northeast Europe, North America, and Asia. It is adapted to a very cold climate and uses various foraging strategies to obtain its...
The golden-crowned kinglet (Regulus satrapa ) is a very small songbird in the family Regulidae that lives throughout much of North America.
The dickcissel (Spiza americana ) is a small seed-eating migratory bird in the family Cardinalidae. It breeds on the prairie grasslands of the Midwestern United States and winters in Central America, northern Colombia, and northern Venezuela. It is...
The sanderling (Calidris alba ) is a small wading bird. The name derives from Old English sand-yrðling, "sand-ploughman". The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds....
The boreal chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus ) is a small passerine songbird in the tit family Paridae. It is found in the boreal forests of Canada and the northern United States and remains within this range for the entirety of the year. Its year round...
The red-throated loon (North America) or red-throated diver (Britain and Ireland) (Gavia stellata ) is a migratory aquatic bird found in the northern hemisphere. The most widely distributed member of the loon or diver family, it breeds primarily in...
The ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis ) is a medium-sized gull. The genus name is from Latin Larus which appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird. The specific delawarensis refers to the Delaware River.
The rough-legged buzzard or rough-legged hawk (Buteo lagopus ) is a medium-large bird of prey. It is found in Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America, Europe, and Russia during the breeding season and migrates south for the winter. It was...
The dunlin (Calidris alpina ) is a small wader, formerly sometimes separated with the other "stints" in the genus Erolia. The English name is a dialect form of "dunling", first recorded in 1531–1532. It derives from dun, "dull brown", with the...
The American herring gull or Smithsonian gull (Larus smithsonianus or Larus argentatus smithsonianus ) is a large gull that breeds in North America, where it is treated by the American Ornithologists' Union as a subspecies of herring gull (L....
The black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla ) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae.This species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Larus tridactylus. The English name is derived...
The Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus ) is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. The scientific name of this species records a name shift: Manx shearwaters were called Manks puffins in the 17th century. Puffin is an...
The northern parula (Setophaga americana ) is a small New World warbler. It breeds in eastern North America from southern Canada to Florida.
The red-necked grebe (Podiceps grisegena ) is a migratory aquatic bird found in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Its wintering habitat is largely restricted to calm waters just beyond the waves around ocean coasts, although some...
The parasitic jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus ), also known as the Arctic skua, Arctic jaeger or parasitic skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. The word "jaeger" is derived from the German word Jäger, meaning "hunter". The English...
The surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata ) is a large sea duck native to North America. Adult males are almost entirely black with characteristic white patches on the forehead and the nape and adult females are slightly smaller and browner. Surf...
The pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus ), also spelled Pomarine yeager in some translations, pomarine skua, or pomatorhine skua, is a seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. It is a migrant, wintering at sea in the tropical oceans.
The horned grebe or Slavonian grebe (Podiceps auritus ) is a relatively small waterbird in the family Podicipedidae. There are two known subspecies: P. a. auritus, which breeds in the Palearctic, and P. a. cornutus, which breeds in North America....
The striated heron (Butorides striata ) also known as mangrove heron, little heron or green-backed heron, is a small heron, about 44 cm tall. Striated herons are mostly non-migratory and noted for some interesting behavioral traits. Their breeding...
