AviBirds

North America is home to seven species of chickadees, ranging from the widespread Black-capped and Carolina Chickadees to highly localized mountain and northern forest specialists. All belong to the genus Poecile in the family Paridae, the chickadees and tits, and share compact bodies, rounded heads, short bills, and active, acrobatic foraging habits. Most are familiar […]

Winter brings a distinctive mix of birds to North America’s backyards, forests, fields, and neighborhoods. Familiar year-round residents such as chickadees, woodpeckers, cardinals, and wrens remain active through the colder months, while sparrows, finches, and other species become more noticeable as they gather in flocks, visit feeders, or move south from northern breeding gr...

Oregon supports a varied group of yellow birds across landscapes ranging from coastal forests and western valleys to Cascade slopes, eastern grasslands, sagebrush country, wetlands, and riparian corridors. These include familiar goldfinches and meadowlarks alongside colorful tanagers, warblers, kingbirds, grosbeaks, and the distinctive Yellow-breasted Chat, with yellow appear...

Alberta supports a distinctive group of falcons across landscapes ranging from southern grasslands and badlands to parkland, boreal forest, Rocky Mountain valleys, wetlands, farmland, and major cities. The province’s regular species include the widespread American Kestrel and Merlin alongside the larger Peregrine and Prairie Falcons, while winter brings Arctic Gyrfalcons sout...

Utah supports a distinctive group of blue birds across landscapes that range from high mountain forests and aspen groves to pinyon-juniper woodlands, desert scrub, riparian corridors, wetlands, and agricultural valleys. The group includes the “true” bluebirds of the genus Sialia, alongside jays, swallows, buntings, kingfishers, and smaller woodland species, with plumage that ...