IN THE TREES Birds of THE USA
It's hard not to look around without seeing the beauty in the trees. If you stare long enough, you will always be amazed.


Red-throated loon
Common loon
Eared Grebe
Pied-billed grebe
Western grebe
Black-vented shearwater??
American white pelican
Brown pelican
Great cormorant
Double-crested cormorant
Brandt’s cormorant
Great blue heron
Great egret
Snowy egret
Tricolored heron
Cattle egret
Green heron
Black-crowned night-heron
Yellow-crowned night-heron
White ibis
White-faced ibis
Glossy ibis
Wood stork
Mute swan
Trumpeter swan
Tundra swan
Canada goose
Brant
Snow Goose
Wood duck
Mallard
American black duck
Gadwall
Northern pintail
American wigeon
Northern shoveler
Cinnamon teal
Blue-winged teal
Green-winged teal
Redhead
Ring-necked duck
Lesser scaup
Surf scoter
Barrow’s goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded merganser
Common merganser
Red-breasted merganser
Ruddy duck
California condor
Turkey vulture
Black vulture
Northern harrier
White-tailed kite
Sharp-shinned hawk
Cooper’s hawk
Swainson’s hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Golden eagle
Bald eagle
Osprey
Merlin
American kestrel
California quail
Gambel’s quail
Ring-necked pheasant
Wild turkey
American coot
Sandhill crane
Black-bellied plover
Semipalmated plover
Killdeer
Black oystercatcher
American oystercatcher
American avocet
Black-necked stilt
Greater yellowlegs
Lesser yellowlegs
Solitary sandpiper
Willet
Spotted sandpiper
Upland sandpiper
Whimbrel
Long-billed curlew
Marbled godwit
Ruddy turnstone
Dunlin
Curlew sandpiper
Semipalmated sandpiper
Least sandpiper
Ruff
Short-billed dowitcher
American woodcock
Common snipe
Wilson’s phalarope
Franklin’s gull
Laughing gull
Ring-billed gull
California gull
Herring gull
Iceland gull
Western gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Great black-backed gull
Heermann’s gull
Caspian tern
Royal tern
Elegant tern
Common tern
Forster’s tern
Least tern
Gull-billed tern
Black tern
Black skimmer
Mourning dove
White-winged dove
Eurasian collared-dove
Ringed turtle-dove
Inca dove
Rock dove
Black-hooded parakeet
Burrowing owl
Eastern screech-owl
Whip-poor-will
Common nighthawk
Chimney swift
White-throated swift
Costa’s hummingbird
Black-chinned hummingbird
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Allen’s hummingbird
Belted kingfisher
Acorn woodpecker
Red-headed woodpecker
Red-bellied woodpecker
Red-naped sapsucker
Downy woodpecker
Hairy woodpecker
Ladder-backed woodpecker
White-headed woodpecker
Northern flicker
Pileated woodpecker
Olive-sided flycatcher
Western wood-peewee
Eastern wood-peewee
Pacific-slope flycatcher
Acadian flycatcher
Black phoebe
Eastern phoebe
Say’s phoebe
Ash-throated flycatcher
Great crested flycatcher
Eastern kingbird
Cassin’s kingbird
Western kingbird
Loggerhead shrike
Red-eyed vireo
Warbling vireo
White-eyed vireo
Steller’s jay
Blue jay
Western scrub-jay
Gray jay
Pinyon jay
Clark’s nutcracker
Black-billed magpie
Common raven
American crow
Fish crow
Horned lark
Purple martin
Northern rough-winged swallow
Bank swallow
Violet-green swallow
Tree swallow
Cliff swallow
Barn swallow
Oak titmouse
Tufted titmouse
Black-capped chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted nuthatch
White-breasted nuthatch
Pygmy nuthatch
Brown-headed nuthatch
Carolina wren
House wren
Cactus wren
Rock wren
American dipper
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Black-tailed gnatcatcher
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Townsend’s solitaire
Mountain bluebird
Western bluebird
Eastern bluebird
American robin
Wood thrush
Veery
Swainson’s thrush
Gray-cheeked thrush
Gray catbird
Northern mockingbird
Brown thrasher
European starling
Phainopepla
Cedar waxwing
Northern parula
Tennessee warbler
Blue-winged warbler
Nashville warbler
Yellow warbler
Chestnut-sided warbler
Magnolia warbler
Cape May warbler
Black-throated blue warbler
Blackburnian warbler
Yellow-rumped warbler
Black-throated green warbler
Pine warbler
Bay-breasted warbler
Blackpoll warbler
Prothonotary warbler
Black-and-white warbler
American redstart
Ovenbird
Northern waterthrush
Kentucky warbler
Connecticut warbler
Mourning warbler
Common yellowthroat
Wilson’s warbler
Canada warbler
Hooded warbler
Hepatic tanager
Western tanager
Scarlet tanager
Northern cardinal
Black-headed grosbeak
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Blue grosbeak
Lazuli bunting
Indigo bunting
Spotted towhee
Eastern towhee
California towhee
Black-throated sparrow
Chipping sparrow
Grasshopper sparrow
Savannah sparrow
Lark bunting
Lark sparrow
White-throated sparrow
White-crowned sparrow
Fox sparrow
Song sparrow
Swamp sparrow
Dark-eyed junco
Western meadowlark
Eastern meadowlark
Bobolink
Brown-headed cowbird
Yellow-headed blackbird
Tricolored blackbird
Red-winged blackbird
Brewer’s blackbird
Common grackle
Boat-tailed grackle
Great-tailed grackle
Bullock’s oriole
Baltimore oriole
Hooded oriole
Orchard oriole
Scott’s oriole
Black rosy-finch
Purple finch
Cassin’s finch
House finch
Pine siskin
Lesser goldfinch
American goldfinch
House sparrow