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Urban Bird Studies

Bird Guide

CITY BIRDS

Birds you might see in Birds in the City

FINCHES AND SPARROWS

House Finch
House Sparrow

STARLINGS AND GRACKLES

European Starling
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle

HAWKS AND FALCONS

Red-tailed Hawk  
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon

CROWS, RAVENS,
MAGPIES, JAYS 

Steller's Jay
Blue Jay
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Northwestern Crow
Fish Crow
Common Raven

DOVES AND PIGEONS

Rock Pigeon
Band-tailed Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove

GULLS

Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull

California Gull
Herring Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Great Black-backed Gull 

Learn more about the orders and families of birds:

Hawks and Falcons: Order Falconiformes, Families Accipitridae and Falconidae

Gulls: Order Charadriiformes, Family Laridae

Pigeons and Doves: Order Columbiformes, Family Columbidae

Songbirds: Order Passeriformes

Some families in the Order Passeriformes:

Crows, ravens, magpies, and jays: Family Corvidae

Starlings: Family Sturnidae

Grackles: Family Icteridae

Finches: Family Fringillidae

House Sparrow: Family Passeridae

 

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