Bird Identification

THE ALBERTA BIRD ATLAS PROJECT – BIRDS IDENTIFICATION

Click on the following bird species for:
(bird pictures, range maps, natural history descriptions, and bird song clips.)

 Flycatchers

 Vireos

 Sparrows

 Warblers

 Thrushes

 Wrens

 Plovers

 Gulls

 Terns

 Ducks, Geese and Swans

 Grebes

 Outside Links With Bird Pictures

Flycatchers
Willow Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Hammond’s Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Cordilleran Flycatcher
Western Wood Pewee
Eastern Phoebe

Vireos
Blue-Headed Vireos
Cassin’s Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-Eyed Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo

Sparrows
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-Colored Sparrow
Brewer’s Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Baird’s Sparrow
Le Conte’s Sparrow
Nelson’s Sharp-Tailed Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
White-Throated Sparrow
White-Crowned Sparro

Warblers
Nashville Warbler
Orange-Crowned Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
MacGillivray’s Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-White Warbler

Thrushes
Veery
Hermit Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush

Wrens
Winter Wren

Plovers
Piping Plover

Gulls
Franklin’s Gull

Terns
Arctic Tern

Ducks, Geese and Swans
Trumpeter Swan

Grebes
Horned Grebe

The following are links to web sites that have bird

Take a quiz on bird identification!
The Provincial Museum of Alberta has created a quiz so you can test your bird skills at identifying Warblers.

Alberta Wildlife web site
(Pictures of birds and other wildlife)

Wagner Natural Area
(Bird pictures, sounds, and descriptions)

Bird Images Gallery
(Great site for finding bird pictures)

List of bird pictures
(Great site for finding bird pictures)

Photobirder
Photobirder is a list of bird pictures from around the world.

Canadian Wildlife Service
Hinterland Who’s Who
This web site has natural history descriptions and bird pictures for Canada.

The Otterside
This web site is a collection of bird images and description for species in North America and Japan.

Aquatic birds
This web site is a collection of pictures for birds found on or near bodies of water.

Bobs bird pictures
This web site is a collection of bird and other nature photo’s.

Patuxent bird identification infocenter
This web site contains photographs, songs, videos, identification tips, quiz’s, maps, and life history information for North American birds.

Bird identification guide
Designed by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology this web site contains both images and sounds to help you identify birds.

Watchlist bird quiz
This web site is about North American birds that are experiencing threats such as population decline, limited geographic range, and habitat loss.

Ventana Wilderness Society
This web site contains a bird quiz and other bird facts.

Northbirding
This web site contains an assortment of different bird quiz’s.

Raptor ID quiz
This web site was set up by the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary.

Birds of Fort McMurray
This web site is a collection of bird pictures from Northern Alberta.

Virtual birder
This link will take you to a collection of bird photo galleries.

Gull identification web site
This site contains images and descriptions of how to identify Gulls.

Randal Hoscheit’s photos
This page contains a collection of bird photos taken in the province of Alberta.

The Internet Bird Collection (IBC)
This web site contains pictures and natural history information for birds that are found around the world.

Greg Lasley’s photos
This web site is a collection of bird images found in the Western hemisphere.