Black birds of North America
Colour is usually the first thing you notice and the least reliable thing to identify on — light, angle, and season all shift it, and females often look nothing like males. These 203 birds all read as black in the field. Check the field marks on each page to be sure.
203 birds
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
American CootFulica americana
Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescens
Turkey VultureCathartes aura
Black PhoebeSayornis nigricans
Black VultureCoragyps atratus
Black-billed MagpiePica hudsonia
Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
Common RavenCorvus corax
Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
Spotted TowheePipilo maculatus
Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorus
American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
Black-and-white WarblerMniotilta varia
Black-chinned HummingbirdArchilochus alexandri
Black-crowned Night-HeronNycticorax nycticorax
Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
Common LoonGavia immer
Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
Hairy WoodpeckerDryobates villosus
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
Ladder-backed WoodpeckerDryobates scalaris
Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
Mountain ChickadeePoecile gambeli
Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
Black SkimmerRynchops niger
Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
Blackpoll WarblerSetophaga striata
BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
BrantBranta bernicla
Common GallinuleGallinula galeata
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
Greater ScaupAythya marila
Nuttall's WoodpeckerDryobates nuttallii
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
Red-naped SapsuckerSphyrapicus nuchalis
White-headed WoodpeckerDryobates albolarvatus
White-throated SwiftAeronautes saxatalis
Harris's SparrowZonotrichia querula
Canada GooseBranta canadensis
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
BuffleheadBucephala albeola
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
Lesser GoldfinchSpinus psaltria
Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
Steller's JayCyanocitta stelleri
Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavo
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
Black-headed GrosbeakPheucticus melanocephalus
Black-throated Blue WarblerSetophaga caerulescens
Bullock's OrioleIcterus bullockii
Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
Gila WoodpeckerMelanerpes uropygialis
Golden-crowned SparrowZonotrichia atricapilla
Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnolia
Purple MartinProgne subis
Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
Snow GooseAnser caerulescens
Snowy EgretEgretta thula
Yellow-headed BlackbirdXanthocephalus xanthocephalus
American WoodcockScolopax minor
Blackburnian WarblerSetophaga fusca
Clark's NutcrackerNucifraga columbiana
DickcisselSpiza americana
DunlinCalidris alpina
Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
Hooded WarblerSetophaga citrina
Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
Pacific WrenTroglodytes pacificus
Prairie WarblerSetophaga discolor
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellus
Trumpeter SwanCygnus buccinator
Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
Wilson's WarblerCardellina pusilla
Winter WrenTroglodytes hiemalis
Yellow-crowned Night-HeronNyctanassa violacea
Bridled TitmouseBaeolophus wollweberi
ChukarAlectoris chukar
Golden-fronted WoodpeckerMelanerpes aurifrons
Great KiskadeePitangus sulphuratus
Kentucky WarblerGeothlypis formosa
Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus
Wood StorkMycteria americana
Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
Snowy OwlBubo scandiacus
House SparrowPasser domesticus
Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
Eurasian Collared-DoveStreptopelia decaocto
KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
California QuailCallipepla californica
GadwallMareca strepera
Great EgretArdea alba
Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
OspreyPandion haliaetus
Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
Western KingbirdTyrannus verticalis
Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglecta
White IbisEudocimus albus
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronata
Barred OwlStrix varia
Black-throated Green WarblerSetophaga virens
Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
Cactus WrenCampylorhynchus brunneicapillus
CanvasbackAythya valisineria
Chestnut-backed ChickadeePoecile rufescens
Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
Eastern MeadowlarkSturnella magna
Gambel's QuailCallipepla gambelii
Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
Hooded OrioleIcterus cucullatus
Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
Marsh WrenCistothorus palustris
Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
RedheadAythya americana
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendula
SanderlingCalidris alba
Say's PhoebeSayornis saya
Western TanagerPiranga ludoviciana
WilletTringa semipalmata
Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
American PipitAnthus rubescens
Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
Common TernSterna hirundo
Forster's TernSterna forsteri
Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
Rough-legged HawkButeo lagopus
Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
Varied ThrushIxoreus naevius
White-tailed KiteElanus leucurus
Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
Canada JayPerisoreus canadensis
Canada WarblerCardellina canadensis
Long-eared OwlAsio otus
Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
Northern ShrikeLanius borealis
Prairie FalconFalco mexicanus
Sedge WrenCistothorus stellaris
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica
Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
Chestnut-sided WarblerSetophaga pensylvanica
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
MerlinFalco columbarius
Northern HarrierCircus hudsonius
Northern PintailAnas acuta
Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
Red-shouldered HawkButeo lineatus
Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
Western GullLarus occidentalis
California GullLarus californicus
Canyon WrenCatherpes mexicanus
Cinnamon TealSpatula cyanoptera
Common RedpollAcanthis flammea
Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
Least TernSternula antillarum
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
Rock WrenSalpinctes obsoletus
Scissor-tailed FlycatcherTyrannus forficatus
Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusilla
Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
SoraPorzana carolina
Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
Yellow-throated WarblerSetophaga dominica
Cassin's KingbirdTyrannus vociferans
Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
Lewis's WoodpeckerMelanerpes lewis
Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
Townsend's SolitaireMyadestes townsendi
Virginia RailRallus limicola
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