Green 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 55 birds all read as green in the field. Check the field marks on each page to be sure.
55 birds
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Anna's HummingbirdCalypte anna
Green-winged TealAnas carolinensis
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
Red-eyed VireoVireo olivaceus
Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
Wood DuckAix sponsa
Black-throated Green WarblerSetophaga virens
Broad-tailed HummingbirdSelasphorus platycercus
Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
Green HeronButorides virescens
OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendula
Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
Orange-crowned WarblerLeiothlypis celata
Violet-green SwallowTachycineta thalassina
White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax traillii
Lewis's WoodpeckerMelanerpes lewis
American WigeonMareca americana
Pine WarblerSetophaga pinus
Ring-necked PheasantPhasianus colchicus
Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
Common MerganserMergus merganser
Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
Pacific-slope FlycatcherEmpidonax difficilis
Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostra
European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
Rock PigeonColumba livia
Brewer's BlackbirdEuphagus cyanocephalus
Lesser GoldfinchSpinus psaltria
Yellow WarblerSetophaga petechia
Black-chinned HummingbirdArchilochus alexandri
Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
Northern ParulaSetophaga americana
Rufous HummingbirdSelasphorus rufus
Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
Warbling VireoVireo gilvus
Blackpoll WarblerSetophaga striata
Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
Hooded WarblerSetophaga citrina
Nashville WarblerLeiothlypis ruficapilla
Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
Prairie WarblerSetophaga discolor
Wilson's WarblerCardellina pusilla
Yellow-throated VireoVireo flavifrons
Kentucky WarblerGeothlypis formosa
Black-billed MagpiePica hudsonia
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
Black-throated Blue WarblerSetophaga caerulescens
Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
Greater ScaupAythya marila
Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
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