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.

Hermit Thrush perched showing spotted breast and reddish tail

Hermit Thrush

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Northern Mockingbird portrait on a rose branch

Northern Mockingbird

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Gray Catbird singing

Gray Catbird

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Brown Thrasher singing from a treetop

Brown Thrasher

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Curve-billed Thrasher perched on cactus tip, Sandia Mountains

Curve-billed Thrasher

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Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird hovering

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

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Male Anna's Hummingbird in flight

Anna’s Hummingbird

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Male Rufous Hummingbird perched showing orange-red gorget

Rufous Hummingbird

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Photo: Vickie J Anderson, wildlifeimagesupclose.com, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black-chinned_Hummingbird_5563m.jpg

Black-chinned Hummingbird

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Photo: Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (NPS), via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broad-Tailed_Hummingbird_on_Branch_(50365949817).jpg

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

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Photo: K.lee, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Costas-hummingbird.JPG

Costa’s Hummingbird

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Calliope Hummingbird flared magenta gorget

Calliope Hummingbird

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Male Mourning Dove feeding on the ground

Mourning Dove

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Eurasian Collared-Dove perched showing black collar

Eurasian Collared-Dove

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White-winged Dove perched showing white wing stripe (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

White-winged Dove

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Inca Dove on barbed wire showing scaly plumage (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Inca Dove

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Gambel's Quail male perched on a branch

Gambel’s Quail

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Male Brown-headed Cowbird with glossy black plumage and brown head perched on a log

Brown-headed Cowbird

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Male Brewer's Blackbird with glossy blue-black plumage perched on a rock

Brewer’s Blackbird

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European Starling in glossy breeding plumage with yellow bill on a branch

European Starling

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European Starling in glossy breeding plumage with yellow bill on a branch

European Starling

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Small brown House Wren singing with bill open on a branch

House Wren

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carolina wren white eyebrow closeup

Carolina Wren

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Baltimore Oriole male perched showing black head and flame-orange underparts

Baltimore Oriole

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Bullock's Oriole male perched showing orange face, black eyeline and white wing patch

Bullock’s Oriole

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Adult male Orchard Oriole with black head and deep chestnut underparts perched on a lichen-covered branch

Orchard Oriole

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Adult male Hooded Oriole with brilliant orange body and black bib perched on a stump

Hooded Oriole

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Male Red-winged Blackbird singing with red and yellow shoulder patches visible

Red-winged Blackbird

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