Small (sparrow-sized) birds
Nobody estimates a bird in inches, so size here is anchored to birds you already know. These 45 species are small (sparrow-sized). Size narrows the field fast — pair it with colour and habitat to get to a single species.
45 birds
House SparrowPasser domesticus
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescens
Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
Black PhoebeSayornis nigricans
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
Western BluebirdSialia mexicana
White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorus
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arborea
Ash-throated FlycatcherMyiarchus cinerascens
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
Black-headed GrosbeakPheucticus melanocephalus
Bullock's OrioleIcterus bullockii
Cactus WrenCampylorhynchus brunneicapillus
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
Gila WoodpeckerMelanerpes uropygialis
Golden-crowned SparrowZonotrichia atricapilla
Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
Hooded OrioleIcterus cucullatus
Ladder-backed WoodpeckerDryobates scalaris
Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
Mountain BluebirdSialia currucoides
Purple FinchHaemorhous purpureus
Purple MartinProgne subis
Say's PhoebeSayornis saya
Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
Western TanagerPiranga ludoviciana
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
DickcisselSpiza americana
Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatus
VeeryCatharus fuscescens
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