Explore birds in your area and learn to identify them by habitat, season, sound, and visible traits.
Ohio supports a varied group of herons across its marshes, lakes, rivers, streams, and other wetlands, from widespread Great Blue and Green Herons to secretive bitterns and localized egrets and night herons. The greatest diversity occurs around the...
Michigan supports an impressive variety of large birds across its Great Lakes shorelines, inland lakes, wetlands, forests, and open landscapes. Some stand out for their towering height, while others impress with immense wingspans, heavy bodies, or...
Colorado supports an impressive variety of yellow birds, from familiar backyard finches to meadowlarks and kingbirds of the open plains and colorful warblers and tanagers of mountain forests and streamside woodlands. Some species are brilliant...
North America supports an impressive variety of giant birds, from towering cranes and heavyweight swans to broad-winged raptors, pelicans, and ocean-going seabirds. Some rank among the continent’s tallest, heaviest, or longest-winged species, while...
Missouri supports a varied group of red birds found across forests, woodlands, open fields, wetlands, farmland, parks, and suburban neighborhoods. These range from familiar year-round residents and colorful summer tanagers to irruptive northern...
Nebraska is the crane capital of North America, hosting one of the world’s greatest wildlife migrations each spring. More than a million Sandhill Cranes gather along the Platte River Valley to rest and refuel before continuing to their...
South Carolina supports a diverse community of birds of prey, from widespread species such as Red-tailed Hawk, Turkey Vulture, and Barred Owl to elegant coastal specialists including Swallow-tailed Kite and Mississippi Kite. The state’s...
Illinois supports a diverse group of red birds found across forests, woodlands, grasslands, wetlands, farmland, parks, and suburban neighborhoods. These range from familiar backyard species and colorful summer tanagers to irruptive northern finches...
Ontario supports a diverse group of blue birds found across habitats ranging from Carolinian forests and Canadian Shield woodlands to wetlands, lakeshores, grasslands, farmland, and suburban neighborhoods. These include familiar species such as the...
Michigan is home to one breeding loon and three additional species that occur as migrants or rare visitors. The Common Loon is a familiar symbol of the state’s northern lakes, nesting across much of the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower...
