Year-Round birds
Half of identification is knowing what is even possible on the date you are looking. These 121 birds are ones to expect in year-round — ranges are wide, so check each species page for where it applies.
121 birds
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
American RobinTurdus migratorius
Canada GooseBranta canadensis
European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
House SparrowPasser domesticus
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
Rock PigeonColumba livia
American CootFulica americana
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescens
Eurasian Collared-DoveStreptopelia decaocto
House FinchHaemorhous mexicanus
KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
Turkey VultureCathartes aura
Anna's HummingbirdCalypte anna
Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
Black PhoebeSayornis nigricans
Black VultureCoragyps atratus
Black-billed MagpiePica hudsonia
Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
BushtitPsaltriparus minimus
California QuailCallipepla californica
California Scrub-JayAphelocoma californica
California TowheeMelozone crissalis
Carolina WrenThryothorus ludovicianus
Common RavenCorvus corax
Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
GadwallMareca strepera
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Great EgretArdea alba
Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
Lesser GoldfinchSpinus psaltria
Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
Pine WarblerSetophaga pinus
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
Ring-necked PheasantPhasianus colchicus
Spotted TowheePipilo maculatus
Steller's JayCyanocitta stelleri
Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
Western BluebirdSialia mexicana
Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglecta
White IbisEudocimus albus
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica
Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
Wood DuckAix sponsa
Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorus
American KestrelFalco sparverius
Barn OwlTyto alba
Barred OwlStrix varia
Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
Black-crowned Night-HeronNycticorax nycticorax
Brown CreeperCerthia americana
Cactus WrenCampylorhynchus brunneicapillus
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
Chestnut-backed ChickadeePoecile rufescens
Common MerganserMergus merganser
Cooper's HawkAstur cooperii
Curve-billed ThrasherToxostoma curvirostre
Eastern MeadowlarkSturnella magna
Eastern Screech-OwlMegascops asio
Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
Gambel's QuailCallipepla gambelii
Gila WoodpeckerMelanerpes uropygialis
Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
Hairy WoodpeckerDryobates villosus
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
Ladder-backed WoodpeckerDryobates scalaris
Mountain ChickadeePoecile gambeli
Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
Oak TitmouseBaeolophus inornatus
Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
Say's PhoebeSayornis saya
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
VerdinAuriparus flaviceps
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia
Clark's NutcrackerNucifraga columbiana
Ferruginous HawkButeo regalis
Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
Vermilion FlycatcherPyrocephalus obscurus
Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
Cattle EgretBubulcus ibis
Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
Green HeronButorides virescens
Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
Mountain BluebirdSialia currucoides
Northern HarrierCircus hudsonius
Pine SiskinSpinus pinus
Purple FinchHaemorhous purpureus
Snowy EgretEgretta thula
Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
Winter WrenTroglodytes hiemalis
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