Gray 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 146 birds all read as gray in the field. Check the field marks on each page to be sure.
146 birds
Rock PigeonColumba livia
Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
Eurasian Collared-DoveStreptopelia decaocto
Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
BushtitPsaltriparus minimus
California QuailCallipepla californica
Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
Eastern Wood-PeweeContopus virens
GadwallMareca strepera
Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensis
White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
Ash-throated FlycatcherMyiarchus cinerascens
Cooper's HawkAstur cooperii
Eastern Screech-OwlMegascops asio
Gambel's QuailCallipepla gambelii
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
MerlinFalco columbarius
Northern HarrierCircus hudsonius
Oak TitmouseBaeolophus inornatus
Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
Sandhill CraneAntigone canadensis
Say's PhoebeSayornis saya
VerdinAuriparus flaviceps
Warbling VireoVireo gilvus
WilletTringa semipalmata
Clark's NutcrackerNucifraga columbiana
Juniper TitmouseBaeolophus ridgwayi
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
Rock WrenSalpinctes obsoletus
Scissor-tailed FlycatcherTyrannus forficatus
Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusilla
Yellow-crowned Night-HeronNyctanassa violacea
Bridled TitmouseBaeolophus wollweberi
Canada JayPerisoreus canadensis
ChukarAlectoris chukar
Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
Mountain QuailOreortyx pictus
Northern ShrikeLanius borealis
Olive-sided FlycatcherContopus cooperi
Sage ThrasherOreoscoptes montanus
Scaled QuailCallipepla squamata
Townsend's SolitaireMyadestes townsendi
House SparrowPasser domesticus
Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
American CootFulica americana
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Song SparrowMelospiza melodia
Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
House WrenTroglodytes aedon
Western KingbirdTyrannus verticalis
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronata
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arborea
Black-crowned Night-HeronNycticorax nycticorax
Curve-billed ThrasherToxostoma curvirostre
Field SparrowSpizella pusilla
Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
Mountain BluebirdSialia currucoides
RedheadAythya americana
Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
SanderlingCalidris alba
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
Western GullLarus occidentalis
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
California GullLarus californicus
Common TernSterna hirundo
Forster's TernSterna forsteri
Least TernSternula antillarum
Nashville WarblerLeiothlypis ruficapilla
SoraPorzana carolina
White-tailed KiteElanus leucurus
Woodhouse's Scrub-JayAphelocoma woodhouseii
Yellow-throated WarblerSetophaga dominica
Canada WarblerCardellina canadensis
Cassin's KingbirdTyrannus vociferans
Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
Mexican JayAphelocoma wollweberi
Pinyon JayGymnorhinus cyanocephalus
Virginia RailRallus limicola
Bohemian WaxwingBombycilla garrulus
Florida Scrub-JayAphelocoma coerulescens
American RobinTurdus migratorius
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Black-capped ChickadeePoecile atricapillus
Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis
Anna's HummingbirdCalypte anna
Black VultureCoragyps atratus
California Scrub-JayAphelocoma californica
Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
Green-winged TealAnas carolinensis
Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
Red-eyed VireoVireo olivaceus
Western BluebirdSialia mexicana
Barn OwlTyto alba
Bewick's WrenThryomanes bewickii
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
Common LoonGavia immer
Fox SparrowPasserella iliaca
Golden-crowned SparrowZonotrichia atricapilla
Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
Mountain ChickadeePoecile gambeli
Northern PintailAnas acuta
Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
Purple MartinProgne subis
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
Swainson's HawkButeo swainsoni
Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
California ThrasherToxostoma redivivum
Greater ScaupAythya marila
Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
Orange-crowned WarblerLeiothlypis celata
Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellus
Lewis's WoodpeckerMelanerpes lewis
Wood StorkMycteria americana
American WigeonMareca americana
Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
BuffleheadBucephala albeola
Pine WarblerSetophaga pinus
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
CanvasbackAythya valisineria
Common MerganserMergus merganser
Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnolia
Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
Snow GooseAnser caerulescens
American WoodcockScolopax minor
BrantBranta bernicla
DickcisselSpiza americana
DunlinCalidris alpina
Ferruginous HawkButeo regalis
Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
Roseate SpoonbillPlatalea ajaja
Varied ThrushIxoreus naevius
Vermilion FlycatcherPyrocephalus obscurus
Yellow-throated VireoVireo flavifrons
Cassin's FinchHaemorhous cassinii
Harris's SparrowZonotrichia querula
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