Yellow 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 95 birds all read as yellow in the field. Check the field marks on each page to be sure.
95 birds
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
Lesser GoldfinchSpinus psaltria
Pine WarblerSetophaga pinus
Western KingbirdTyrannus verticalis
Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglecta
Yellow WarblerSetophaga petechia
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronata
Chestnut-sided WarblerSetophaga pensylvanica
Eastern MeadowlarkSturnella magna
Golden-crowned SparrowZonotrichia atricapilla
Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnolia
Western TanagerPiranga ludoviciana
Yellow-headed BlackbirdXanthocephalus xanthocephalus
DickcisselSpiza americana
Evening GrosbeakCoccothraustes vespertinus
Hooded WarblerSetophaga citrina
Nashville WarblerLeiothlypis ruficapilla
Pacific-slope FlycatcherEmpidonax difficilis
Prairie WarblerSetophaga discolor
Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
Wilson's WarblerCardellina pusilla
Yellow-throated VireoVireo flavifrons
Yellow-throated WarblerSetophaga dominica
Canada WarblerCardellina canadensis
Cassin's KingbirdTyrannus vociferans
Golden-fronted WoodpeckerMelanerpes aurifrons
Great KiskadeePitangus sulphuratus
Kentucky WarblerGeothlypis formosa
Great EgretArdea alba
Ash-throated FlycatcherMyiarchus cinerascens
Black-throated Green WarblerSetophaga virens
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
Golden-crowned KingletRegulus satrapa
Hooded OrioleIcterus cucullatus
Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
Northern ParulaSetophaga americana
Palm WarblerSetophaga palmarum
Pine SiskinSpinus pinus
Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
VerdinAuriparus flaviceps
Orange-crowned WarblerLeiothlypis celata
White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos
Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
Cattle EgretBubulcus ibis
Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
Snowy EgretEgretta thula
Western GullLarus occidentalis
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia
California GullLarus californicus
Common GallinuleGallinula galeata
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
Least TernSternula antillarum
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicus
Northern WaterthrushParkesia noveboracensis
Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
SoraPorzana carolina
Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatus
Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
Snowy OwlBubo scandiacus
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorus
American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
Black-headed GrosbeakPheucticus melanocephalus
Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
Green HeronButorides virescens
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
Blackburnian WarblerSetophaga fusca
Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
Red-naped SapsuckerSphyrapicus nuchalis
Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
Yellow-crowned Night-HeronNyctanassa violacea
American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
Sage ThrasherOreoscoptes montanus
Bohemian WaxwingBombycilla garrulus
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