Species Guide

Explore bird species around the world by region or search for a cool bird you're interested in. See distribution maps, photos, info and Birda user sightings. If it is up there, it is in here!

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Accentors African & Green Broadbills Albatrosses Alcippe Fulvettas Anhingas, Darters Asian Barbets Auks Austral Storm Petrels Australasian Babblers Australasian Robins Australasian Warblers Australasian Wrens Australo-Papuan Bellbirds Babblers, Scimitar Babblers Barn Owls Bee-eaters Birds-of-paradise Boatbills Bristlehead Bulbuls Buntings Bushtits Bustards Buttonquail Caracaras, Falcons Cassowaries, Emu Cettia Bush Warblers & Allies Chats, Old World Flycatchers Cisticolas & Allies Cockatoos Cormorants, Shags Coursers, Pratincoles Crab-plover Cranes Crombecs, African Warblers Crows, Jays Cuckoos Cuckooshrikes Cupwings Dippers Drongos Ducks, Geese, Swans Elachura Fairy Flycatchers Fairy-bluebirds Fantails Figbirds, Orioles, Turnagra Finches, Euphonias Finfoots Flamingos Flowerpeckers Flufftails Frigatebirds Frogmouths Gannets, Boobies Goldcrests, Kinglets Grassbirds & Allies Grebes Ground Babblers Gulls, Terns, Skimmers Herons, Bitterns Honeyeaters Honeyguides Hoopoes Hornbills Hylocitrea Ibisbill Ibises, Spoonbills Ifrit Indigobirds, Whydahs Ioras Jacanas Jewel-babblers, Quail-thrushes Kingfishers Kites, Hawks, Eagles Larks Laughingthrushes & Allies Leaf Warblers & Allies Leafbirds Longspurs, Snow Buntings Magpie Goose Megapodes Melampittas Monarchs Mottled Berryhunter Nightjars Northern Storm Petrels Nuthatches Old World Parrots Old World Sparrows, Snowfinches Ospreys Owls Oystercatchers Painted-snipes Parrotbills & Allies Pelicans Penduline Tits Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels Pheasants & Allies Pigeons, Doves Pittas Ploughbill Plovers Rail-babbler Rails, Crakes & Coots Reed Warblers & Allies Rollers Sandpipers, Snipes Shrikes Sittellas Skuas Starlings, Rhabdornis Stilts, Avocets Stone-curlews, Thick-knees Storks Sunbirds Swallows, Martins Swifts Sylviid Babblers Thrushes Tits, Chickadees Treecreepers Treeswifts Trogons Tropicbirds Typical Broadbills Vangas & Allies Vireos, Greenlets, Shrike-babblers Wagtails, Pipits Wallcreeper Waxbills, Munias & Allies Waxwings Weavers, Widowbirds Whipbirds Whistlers & Allies White-eyes Woodpeckers Woodswallows, Butcherbirds & Allies Wrens Jayshrike

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Giant Ibis

Glossy Ibis

Hadada Ibis

Red-naped Ibis

Royal Spoonbill

Spoonbill

Straw-necked Ibis

White-shouldered Ibis

Yellow-billed Spoonbill

Blue-capped Ifrit

Pin-tailed Whydah

Common Iora

Great Iora

Green Iora

Bronze-winged Jacana

Comb-crested Jacana

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Pheasant-tailed Jacana

Crested Jayshrike

Blue Jewel-babbler

Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler

Painted Quail-thrush

Spotted Jewel-babbler

Azure Kingfisher

Banded Kingfisher

Beach Kingfisher

Biak Paradise Kingfisher

Black-capped Kingfisher

Blue-and-white Kingfisher

Blue-banded Kingfisher

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Blue-black Kingfisher

Blue-eared Kingfisher

Blue-winged Kookaburra

Blyth's Kingfisher

Brown-breasted Kingfisher

Brown-winged Kingfisher

Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher

Buru Dwarf Kingfisher

Cerulean Kingfisher

Cinnamon-banded Kingfisher

Collared Kingfisher

Common Paradise Kingfisher

Crested Kingfisher

Dimorphic Dwarf Kingfisher

Forest Kingfisher

Glittering Kingfisher

Great-billed Kingfisher

Green-backed Kingfisher

Hombron's Kingfisher

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