White 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 160 birds all read as white in the field. Check the field marks on each page to be sure.
160 birds
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
BuffleheadBucephala albeola
Cattle EgretBubulcus ibis
Great EgretArdea alba
Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
White IbisEudocimus albus
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
Barn OwlTyto alba
Common MerganserMergus merganser
SanderlingCalidris alba
Snow GooseAnser caerulescens
Snowy EgretEgretta thula
Ferruginous HawkButeo regalis
Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescens
KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
Black PhoebeSayornis nigricans
Black VultureCoragyps atratus
Black-billed MagpiePica hudsonia
Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
California Scrub-JayAphelocoma californica
Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
Eastern Wood-PeweeContopus virens
Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
OspreyPandion haliaetus
Red-eyed VireoVireo olivaceus
Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica
Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorus
Barred OwlStrix varia
Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
Black-and-white WarblerMniotilta varia
Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
Brown CreeperCerthia americana
Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
Cactus WrenCampylorhynchus brunneicapillus
Common LoonGavia immer
Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
Hairy WoodpeckerDryobates villosus
Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
Ladder-backed WoodpeckerDryobates scalaris
Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
Mountain ChickadeePoecile gambeli
Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendula
Swainson's HawkButeo swainsoni
Warbling VireoVireo gilvus
Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
Blackpoll WarblerSetophaga striata
BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia
Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
Northern WaterthrushParkesia noveboracensis
Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatus
Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
Canada GooseBranta canadensis
American CootFulica americana
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
House FinchHaemorhous mexicanus
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
American WigeonMareca americana
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
Pine WarblerSetophaga pinus
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
Spotted TowheePipilo maculatus
Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
Wood DuckAix sponsa
American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
Black-crowned Night-HeronNycticorax nycticorax
Black-headed GrosbeakPheucticus melanocephalus
Black-throated Blue WarblerSetophaga caerulescens
Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
Broad-tailed HummingbirdSelasphorus platycercus
Bullock's OrioleIcterus bullockii
Chestnut-sided WarblerSetophaga pensylvanica
Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
Gila WoodpeckerMelanerpes uropygialis
Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnolia
MerlinFalco columbarius
Mountain BluebirdSialia currucoides
Northern HarrierCircus hudsonius
Pine SiskinSpinus pinus
Purple FinchHaemorhous purpureus
Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
Sandhill CraneAntigone canadensis
Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
Yellow-headed BlackbirdXanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Blackburnian WarblerSetophaga fusca
Clark's NutcrackerNucifraga columbiana
Common RedpollAcanthis flammea
Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
Lazuli BuntingPasserina amoena
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
VeeryCatharus fuscescens
Vermilion FlycatcherPyrocephalus obscurus
Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
Rock PigeonColumba livia
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
Eurasian Collared-DoveStreptopelia decaocto
California QuailCallipepla californica
GadwallMareca strepera
Lesser GoldfinchSpinus psaltria
Ring-necked PheasantPhasianus colchicus
Western KingbirdTyrannus verticalis
Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglecta
Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronata
American KestrelFalco sparverius
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arborea
Black-chinned HummingbirdArchilochus alexandri
Black-throated Green WarblerSetophaga virens
Chestnut-backed ChickadeePoecile rufescens
Cooper's HawkAstur cooperii
Curve-billed ThrasherToxostoma curvirostre
Eastern MeadowlarkSturnella magna
Eastern Screech-OwlMegascops asio
Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
Gambel's QuailCallipepla gambelii
Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
Hooded OrioleIcterus cucullatus
Northern ParulaSetophaga americana
Palm WarblerSetophaga palmarum
Rufous HummingbirdSelasphorus rufus
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
Western TanagerPiranga ludoviciana
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