Featured Birds
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Common Tern |
Piping Plover |
Black Oystercatcher |
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| It may look like your average seagull, but don’t expect the common tern to steal your snacks at the beach. READ MORE >> |
Named for its full, melodic tone, the piping plover is unique to North America, and despite widespread habitat loss, can be found on stretches of sandy beach all across the Atlantic coast. READ MORE > > |
As its name suggests, the black oystercatcher has a particular taste for shellfish, and settles its nest along rocky shorelines. While it eats mainly mollusks, it hardly ever eats actual oysters, instead opting for mussels and limpets. READ MORE > > |
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California Condor |
Northern Saw-whet Owl |
Sandhill Crane |
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| California condors are the largest
flying birds in North America. READ MORE > > |
Saw-whet owls are one of the most common owls across northern North America but because they are active almost exclusively at night, they are rarely seen.
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Sandhill cranes are one of only two crane species found in North America and the most abundant of the world’s cranes.
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Painted Bunting |
Downy Woodpecker |
Tuffed Puffin |
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| Painted buntings live primarily in the south central and southeast United States. These colorful birds are shy, secretive and often difficult to see. READ MORE > > |
The adult downy woodpecker is the smallest woodpecker in North America.
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Tufted puffins thrive in the open waters, islands and coasts of the north Pacific, from Japan through the Aleutian Islands and south from Oregon to southern California. READ MORE > > |
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Green Jay |
Long-billed Curlew |
Roseate Spoonbill |
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| Quick - how many medium-sized, green, wild birds have you seen flying around your neighborhood recently?
They're even hard to find in a standard North American field guide. READ MORE > > |
Looking for large shorebirds with long, curved bills but don't live near the beach?
If you happen to live in the northwestern United States, you might be in luck.
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Think pink! Just getting started with bird watching? Even beginning bird watchers should
have little difficulty identifying this spectacular bird!
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Wilson's Phalarope |
Great Blue Heron |
Peregine Falcon |
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| Phalaropes are sandpipers that forage on the water’s surface while swimming, often
spinning in one spot.
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Often incorrectly called a crane, to which they are not related, or an egret, which is in the
same family (rather like a second cousin), great blue herons are widely distributed throughout
the continental United States.
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Up in the sky, look: It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman! No, we were right the first time.
Definitely a bird, and most would agree it’s a super bird. Meet the peregrine falcon.
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Eagle |
Black Swift |
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| Great places to see bald eagles on National Wildlife
Refuges.
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An enigmatic bird local to the western United States, the black swift is highly sought after by birders.
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