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 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 Western tanager (Piranga ludoviciana), is a medium-sized American songbird. Formerly placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), other members of its genus and it are classified in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). The plumage and vocalizations...
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 Summer tanager (Piranga rubra ) is a medium-sized American songbird. Formerly placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae), it and other members of its genus are now classified in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). The species' plumage and...
The Brown booby (Sula leucogaster) is a large seabird. It is perhaps the most common and widespread species of the booby family Sulidae. They are gregarious birds that only nest on the ground and roost on solid objects rather than the water surface.
The Great crested flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus) is a large insect-eating bird widespread in North America. It dwells mostly in the treetops, nests in a cavity in a tree, and prefers to line its nests with snake skin.
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 White-winged dove (Zenaida asiatica) is a bird of the Columbidae family that consists of doves and pigeons. It was first described by George Edwards in 1743, and given its binomial name by Linnaeus in 1756. White-winged doves inhabit a variety...
The gadwall (Mareca strepera) is a widespread dabbling duck in the family Anatidae. This species is closely related to the Falcated duck and its scientific name "strepera" means "noisy".
The Chuck-will's-widow (Antrostomus carolinensis) is a nocturnal bird of the nightjar family Caprimulgidae. It is the largest nightjar in North America. The common English name of this bird "chuck-will's-widow " is an onomatopoeia from its song. It...
The Red-footed booby (Sula sula) is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. It is the smallest member of the booby and gannet family.
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 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.
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 Common ground dove (Columbina passerina) is a small bird found in the Americas. It is considered to be the smallest dove that inhabits the United States. As its name suggests, it spends the majority of its time on the ground walking but still...
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...
Black-winged stilts (Himantopus himantopus) are very long-legged wading birds. They are found in both warm and hot climates, feed on small aquatic creatures, and nest on the ground surface in small colonies.
The redhead (Aythya americana) is a diving duck found in the Americas. It is closely related to the canvasback and belongs to the family which also includes ducks, swans, and geese. The scientific name of the redhead can be translated as "American...
The White-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) is a beautiful pelagic tropicbird. It is the smallest of three closely related seabirds of the tropical oceans and the smallest member of the order Phaethontiformes. In Bermuda, it is locally called a...
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 common gallinule (Gallinula galeata ) is a bird in the family Rallidae. It was split from the common moorhen by the American Ornithologists' Union in July 2011. It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals, and other wetlands in the...
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 orchard oriole (Icterus spurius ) is the smallest species of icterid. The subspecies of the Caribbean coast of Mexico, I. s. fuertesi, is sometimes considered a separate species, the ochre oriole or Fuertes's oriole.
The blue-gray gnatcatcher or blue-grey gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea ) is a very small songbird native to North America.
The lesser scaup (Aythya affinis ) is a small North American diving duck that migrates south as far as Central America in winter. It is colloquially known as the little bluebill or broadbill because of its distinctive blue bill. The origin of the...
The limpkin (Aramus guarauna ), also called carrao, courlan, and crying bird, is a large wading bird related to rails and cranes, and the only extant species in the family Aramidae. It is found mostly in wetlands in warm parts of the Americas, from...
The black-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus erythropthalmus ) is a New World species in the Cuculidae (cuckoo) family. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. The genus name kokkuzo, means to call like a common cuckoo, and erythropthalmus is from eruthros,...
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.
Brewer's blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus ) is a medium-sized New World blackbird. It is named after the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer.
The masked booby (Sula dactylatra ), also called the masked gannet or the blue-faced booby, is a large seabird of the booby and gannet family, Sulidae. First described by the French naturalist René-Primevère Lesson in 1831, the masked booby is one...
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 bananaquit (Coereba flaveola ) is a species of passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. Before the development of molecular genetics in the 21st century, its relationship to other species was uncertain and it was either placed with the...
The Western Kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis ) is a large tyrant flycatcher found throughout western environments of North America, as far south as Mexico.Adults are a combination of both gray and yellow plumage, along with crimson feathers that are...
The pine warbler (Setophaga pinus ) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
The northern parula (Setophaga americana ) is a small New World warbler. It breeds in eastern North America from southern Canada to Florida.
The white-eyed vireo (Vireo griseus ) is a small songbird of the family Vireonidae.
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 reddish egret (Egretta rufescens ) is a medium-sized heron. It is a resident breeder in Central America, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Gulf Coast of the United States, and Mexico. There is post-breeding dispersal to well north of the nesting...
