Backyard & Garden Birds of North America

Explore the Birds

Find all 50 birds from the book, with color references, photos, videos, and bird sounds.

Northern Cardinal

Cardinalis cardinalis

Black-capped Chickadee

Poecile atricapillus

Tufted Titmouse

Baeolophus bicolor

Song Sparrow

Melospiza melodia

Chipping Sparrow

Spizella passerina

Blue Jay

Cyanocitta cristata

American Goldfinch

American Robin

Turdus migratorius

White-breasted Nuthatch

Sitta carolinensis

Downy Woodpecker

Dryobates pubescens

Mourning Dove

Zenaida macroura

House Finch

Haemorhous mexicanus

House Sparrow

Passer domesticus

Dark-eyed Junco

Cedar Waxwing

Bombycilla cedrorum

Eastern Bluebird

Carolina Wren

Thryothorus ludovicianus

Northern Mockingbird

Mimus polyglottos

Baltimore Oriole

Icterus galbula

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Melanerpes carolinus

Northern Flicker

Colaptes auratus

White-throated Sparrow

Zonotrichia albicollis

White-crowned Sparrow

Zonotrichia leucophrys

Pine Siskin

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Sitta canadensis

Eastern Towhee

Pipilo erythrophthalmus

Gray Catbird

Dumetella carolinensis

Brown Thrasher

Toxostoma rufum

American Crow

Corvus brachyrhynchos

Red-winged Blackbird

Agelaius phoeniceus

Common Grackle

Quiscalus quiscula

Eastern Phoebe

Sayornis phoebe

House Wren

Troglodytes aedon

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Archilochus colubris

Tree Swallow

Tachycineta bicolor

Barn Swallow

Hirundo rustica

Steller's Jay

Cyanocitta stelleri

California Scrub-Jay

Aphelocoma californica

California Quail

Callipepla californica

Western Bluebird

Sialia mexicana

Spotted Towhee

Pipilo maculatus

Cactus Wren

Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus

Lesser Goldfinch

Spinus psaltria

Bullock's Oriole

Icterus bullockii

Black-headed Grosbeak

Pheucticus melanocephalus

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Pheucticus ludovicianus

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Setophaga coronata

Gambel's Quail

Callipepla gambelii

Curve-billed Thrasher

Toxostoma curvirostre

Painted Bunting

Passerina ciris