

Backyard Birds
Meet the birds outside your window. Each of our 193 species guides covers identification, calls, feeding preferences, and seasonal behavior — field-tested in real American backyards and written in large, readable type with the answer always in the first paragraph.


Scarlet Tanager

Western Meadowlark

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler

Cooper’s Hawk

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Eastern Screech-Owl

Western Screech-Owl

American Kestrel

Cedar Waxwing

House Finch

Purple Finch

Cassin’s Finch

American Goldfinch

Lesser Goldfinch

Pine Siskin

Red Crossbill

Dark-eyed Junco

White-throated Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

American Tree Sparrow

Harris’s Sparrow

Golden-crowned Sparrow

