kinds of birds
Kinds of Birds
There are numerous kinds of birds that inhabit our urban and forested spaces. Learn more about some prominent bird species in this Buzzle post.
Birds | Example |
Long-legged Waders | Herons, egrets, storks, spoonbills, flamingos, bitterns, limpkins, ibises, cranes |
Duck | Surface-feeding ducks, diving ducks, stiff-tailed ducks, mergansers, coots, whistling-ducks, geese, swans, pelicans, grebes, loons |
Perching | Sparrows, kingfishers, cuckoos, bulbuls, crows, flycatchers, parrots, mockingbirds, blackbirds, ravens, starlings, jays, magpies, shrikes, buntings |
Fowl | Chicken, turkey, rails, gallinules, jacanas |
Hawk | Kites, eagles, ospreys, harriers, caracaras, falcons, vultures |
Owls | True owls, barn owls |
Upland Ground | Woodcocks, quails, peacocks, partridges, pheasants, grouse, turkeys, roadrunners, chachalacas, nightjars |
Tree-clinging | Woodpeckers, nuthatches, creepers |
Upright-perching Water Birds | Auks, murres, puffins, cormorants, anhingas |
Gull | Fulmars, shearwaters, albatrosses, terns, skimmers, gannets, boobies, storm-petrels, frigatebirds, skuas, jaegers, tropicbirds |
Pigeon | Partridge, dove |