Large (crow-sized) birds
Nobody estimates a bird in inches, so size here is anchored to birds you already know. These 75 species are large (crow-sized). Size narrows the field fast — pair it with colour and habitat to get to a single species.
75 birds
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
Rock PigeonColumba livia
American CootFulica americana
Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscula
Eurasian Collared-DoveStreptopelia decaocto
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
American WigeonMareca americana
Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
Black-billed MagpiePica hudsonia
BuffleheadBucephala albeola
California QuailCallipepla californica
California Scrub-JayAphelocoma californica
Cattle EgretBubulcus ibis
Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
GadwallMareca strepera
Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
Green-winged TealAnas carolinensis
Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
Steller's JayCyanocitta stelleri
White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
Barn OwlTyto alba
Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
CanvasbackAythya valisineria
Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
Cooper's HawkAstur cooperii
Curve-billed ThrasherToxostoma curvirostre
Gambel's QuailCallipepla gambelii
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
Green HeronButorides virescens
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
MerlinFalco columbarius
Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
RedheadAythya americana
Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
WilletTringa semipalmata
American WoodcockScolopax minor
Black SkimmerRynchops niger
Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
California ThrasherToxostoma redivivum
Cinnamon TealSpatula cyanoptera
Clark's NutcrackerNucifraga columbiana
Common GallinuleGallinula galeata
Common TernSterna hirundo
Forster's TernSterna forsteri
Greater ScaupAythya marila
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus
Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellus
Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
White-tailed KiteElanus leucurus
Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
Woodhouse's Scrub-JayAphelocoma woodhouseii
Canada JayPerisoreus canadensis
ChukarAlectoris chukar
Lewis's WoodpeckerMelanerpes lewis
Long-eared OwlAsio otus
Mexican JayAphelocoma wollweberi
Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
Mountain QuailOreortyx pictus
Pinyon JayGymnorhinus cyanocephalus
Prairie FalconFalco mexicanus
Scaled QuailCallipepla squamata
Florida Scrub-JayAphelocoma coerulescens
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