BALTIMORE ORIOLE (Iderus galbula) Oriole and Blackbird family
Called also: GOLDEN ORIOLE; FIREBIRD; GOLDEN ROBIN; HANG-NEST; ENGLISH ROBIN
Length: 7 to 8 inches. About one-fifth smaller than the robin. Male: Head, throat, upper part of back glossy black. Wings black, with white spots and edgings. Tail-quills black, with yellow markings on the tips. Everywhere else orange, […]
BANK SWALLOW (Clivicola riparia) Swallow family
Called also: SAND MARTIN; SAND SWALLOW
Length: 5 to 5.5 inches. About an inch shorter than the English sparrow, but apparently much larger because of its wide wing-spread. Male and Female: Grayish brown or clay-colored above. Upper wings and tail darkest. Below, white, with brownish band across chest. Tail, which […]
BARN SWALLOW (Chelidon erythrogaster) Swallow family
BAY-BREASTED WARBLER (Dendroica castanea) Wood Warbler family
Length. — 5.25 to 5.75 inches. A little smaller than the English sparrow. Male: Crown, chin, throat, upper breast,
and sides dull chestnut. Forehead, sides of head, and cheeks black. Above olive-gray, streaked with black. Underneath buffy. Two white wing-bars. Outer tail quills with white patches on tips. Cream […]
BELTED KINGFISHER (Ceryle alcyon) Kingfisher family
Called also: THE HALCYON
Length: 12 to 13 inches. About one-fourth as large again as the robin. Male: Upper part grayish blue, with prominent crest on head reaching to the nape. A white spot in front of the eye. Bill longer than the head, which is large and heavy. Wings […]
BLACK AND WHITE CREEPING WARBLER (Mniotilta varia) Wood Warbler family
Called also: VARIED CREEPING WARBLER; BLACK-AND WHITE CREEPER; WHITEPOLL WARBLER; BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER
Length: 5 to inches. About an inch smaller than the English sparrow. Male: Upper parts white, varied with black. A white stripe along the summit of the head and back of the neck, edged […]
BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO (Coccyzus erythrophthalmus) Cuckoo family
Called also: RAIN CROW
Length: 11 to 12 inches. About one-fifth larger than the robin. Male: Grayish brown above, with bronze tint in feathers. Underneath grayish white; bill, which is long as head and black, arched and acute. Skin about the eye bright red. Tail long, and with spots on […]
BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER (Dendroica caerulescens) Wood Warbler family
Length: 5.30 inches. About an inch shorter than the English sparrow. Male: Slate-color, not blue above; lightest on forehead and darkest on lower back. Wings and tail edged with bluish. Cheeks, chin, throat, upper breast, and sides black. Breast and underneath white. White spots on wings, and […]
BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER (Dendroica virens) Wood Warbler family
Length: 5 inches. Over an inch smaller than the English sparrow. Male: Back and crown of head bright yellowish olive-green. Forehead, band over eye, cheeks, and sides of neck rich yellow. Throat, upper breast, and stripe along sides black. Underneath yellowish white. Wings and tail brownish olive, […]
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER (Dendroica blackburnia) Wood Warbler family
Called also: HEMLOCK WARBLER; ORANGE-THROATED WARBLER; TORCH-BIRD
Length: 4.5 to 5.5 inches. An inch and a half smaller than the English sparrow. Male: Head black, striped with orange-flame; throat and breast orange, shading through yellow to white underneath; wings, tail, and part of back black, with white markings. Female: […]
BLACKPOLL WARBLER (Dendroica striata) Wood Warbler family
Length: 5.5 to 6 inches. About an inch smaller than the English sparrow. Male: Black cap; cheeks and beneath grayish white, forming a sort of collar, more or less distinct. Upper parts striped gray, black, and olive. Breast and under parts white, with black streaks. Tail olive-brown, with […]
BLUE GROSBEAK (Guiraca carulea) Finch family
Length: 7 inches. About an inch larger than the English sparrow. Male: Deep blue, dark, and almost black on the back; wings and tail black, slightly edged with blue, and the former marked with bright chestnut. Cheeks and chin black. Bill heavy and bluish. Female: Grayish brown above, sometimes […]
BLUE JAY (Cyanocitta cristata) Crow and Jay family
BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER (Polioptila coerulea) Gnatcatcher family
Called also: SYLVAN FLYCATCHER
Length: 4.5 inches. About two inches smaller than the English sparrow. Male: Grayish blue above, dull grayish white below. Grayish tips on wings. Tail with white outer quills changing gradually through black and white to all black on center quills. Narrow black band over the forehead […]
BLUE-WINGED WARBLER (Helminthophila pinus) Wood Warbler family
Called also: BLUE-WINGED YELLOW WARBLER
Length: 4.75 inches. An inch and a half shorter than the English sparrow. Male: Crown of head and all under parts bright yellow. Back olive-green. Wings and tail bluish slate, the former with white bars, and three outer tail quills with large white patches […]
THE BLUEBIRD (Sialia sialis) Thrush family
Called also: BLUE ROBIN; EASTERN BLUEBIRD
Length: 7 inches. About an inch longer than the English sparrow. Male: Upper parts, wings, and tail bright blue, with rusty wash in autumn. Throat, breast, and sides cinnamon-red. Underneath white. Female: Has duller blue feathers, washed with gray, and a paler breast than […]
BOBOLINK (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) Blackbird family
Called also:REEDBIRD; MAYBIRD; MEADOW-BIRD; AMERICAN ORTOLAN; BUTTER-BIRD; SKUNK BLACKBIRD
Length: 7 inches. A trifle larger than the English sparrow. Male: In spring plumage: black, with light-yellow patch on upper neck, also on edges of wings and tail feathers. Rump and upper wings splashed with white. Middle of back streaked with pale […]
BOHEMIAN WAXWING (Ampelis garrulus) Waxwing family
Called also: BLACK-THROATED WAX WING; LAPLAND WAX WING; SILKTAIL
Length: 8 to 9.5 inches. A little smaller than the robin. Male and Female: General color drab, with faint brownish wash above, shading into lighter gray below. Crest conspicuous. Being nearly an inch and a half in length; rufous at the […]
BROWN CREEPER (Certhia familiaris americana) Creeper family
Length: 5 to 5.75 inches. A little smaller than the English sparrow. Male and Female: Brown above, varied with ashy-gray stripes and small, lozenge-shaped gray mottles. Color lightest on head, increasing in shade to reddish brown near tail. Tail paler brown and long; wings brown and barred with
whitish. […]
BROWN THRASHER (Harporhynchus rufus) Thrasher and Mocking-bird family
Called also: BROWN THRUSH; GROUND THRUSH; RED THRUSH; BROWN MOCKING-BIRD; FRENCH MOCKING-BIRD; MAVIS
Length: 11 to 11.5 inches. Fully an inch longer than the robin. Male: Rusty red-brown or rufous above; darkest on wings, which have two short whitish bands. Underneath white, heavily streaked (except on throat) with […]