Blue 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 41 birds all read as blue in the field. Check the field marks on each page to be sure.
41 birds
Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata
Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
California Scrub-JayAphelocoma californica
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
Steller's JayCyanocitta stelleri
Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
Western BluebirdSialia mexicana
Black-throated Blue WarblerSetophaga caerulescens
Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
Mountain BluebirdSialia currucoides
Northern ParulaSetophaga americana
Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
Lazuli BuntingPasserina amoena
Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
Woodhouse's Scrub-JayAphelocoma woodhouseii
Mexican JayAphelocoma wollweberi
Pinyon JayGymnorhinus cyanocephalus
Florida Scrub-JayAphelocoma coerulescens
American KestrelFalco sparverius
Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis
Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
Varied ThrushIxoreus naevius
Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
Black-billed MagpiePica hudsonia
Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica
Green HeronButorides virescens
Snow GooseAnser caerulescens
Cinnamon TealSpatula cyanoptera
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
Greater RoadrunnerGeococcyx californianus
RedheadAythya americana
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