Black birds of North America
Colour is usually the first thing you notice and the least reliable thing to identify on — light, angle, and season all shift it, and females often look nothing like males. These 125 birds all read as black in the field. Check the field marks on each page to be sure.
125 birds
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
American CootFulica americana
Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescens
Turkey VultureCathartes aura
Black PhoebeSayornis nigricans
Black VultureCoragyps atratus
Black-billed MagpiePica hudsonia
Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
Common RavenCorvus corax
Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
Spotted TowheePipilo maculatus
Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorus
American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
Black-and-white WarblerMniotilta varia
Black-chinned HummingbirdArchilochus alexandri
Black-crowned Night-HeronNycticorax nycticorax
Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
Common LoonGavia immer
Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
Hairy WoodpeckerDryobates villosus
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
Ladder-backed WoodpeckerDryobates scalaris
Mountain ChickadeePoecile gambeli
Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
Blackpoll WarblerSetophaga striata
BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
Canada GooseBranta canadensis
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
BuffleheadBucephala albeola
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
Lesser GoldfinchSpinus psaltria
Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
Steller's JayCyanocitta stelleri
Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
Black-headed GrosbeakPheucticus melanocephalus
Black-throated Blue WarblerSetophaga caerulescens
Bullock's OrioleIcterus bullockii
Gila WoodpeckerMelanerpes uropygialis
Golden-crowned SparrowZonotrichia atricapilla
Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnolia
Purple MartinProgne subis
Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
Snow GooseAnser caerulescens
Snowy EgretEgretta thula
Yellow-headed BlackbirdXanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Blackburnian WarblerSetophaga fusca
Clark's NutcrackerNucifraga columbiana
DickcisselSpiza americana
Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
Winter WrenTroglodytes hiemalis
Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
House SparrowPasser domesticus
Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
Eurasian Collared-DoveStreptopelia decaocto
KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
California QuailCallipepla californica
GadwallMareca strepera
Great EgretArdea alba
Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
OspreyPandion haliaetus
Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
Western KingbirdTyrannus verticalis
Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglecta
White IbisEudocimus albus
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronata
Barred OwlStrix varia
Black-throated Green WarblerSetophaga virens
Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
Cactus WrenCampylorhynchus brunneicapillus
Chestnut-backed ChickadeePoecile rufescens
Eastern MeadowlarkSturnella magna
Gambel's QuailCallipepla gambelii
Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
Hooded OrioleIcterus cucullatus
Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendula
SanderlingCalidris alba
Say's PhoebeSayornis saya
Western TanagerPiranga ludoviciana
Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica
Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
Chestnut-sided WarblerSetophaga pensylvanica
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
MerlinFalco columbarius
Northern HarrierCircus hudsonius
Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
Common RedpollAcanthis flammea
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