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BIRDS
EXPLORE > ANIMAL SPECIES

Birds are warm-blooded vertebrates distinguished by bodies and wings covered in feathers. Most birds are able to fly and all reproduce by laying eggs. Birds are classified into thirty separate groups, only some of which are represented here.
BIRDS OF PREY (Accipitriformes): 
Great Basin spadefoot toad
Great Basin spadefoot toad
Great Basin spadefoot toad
Pacific tree frog
Great Basin spadefoot toad
Great Basin spadefoot toad
Pacific tree frog
Great Basin spadefoot toad
Great Basin spadefoot toad
Pacific tree frog
Prairie falcon
CRANES, COOTS AND RELATIVES (Gruiformes):
American coot
GAMEFOWL (Galliformes):
California quail
Greater sage-grouse
KINGFISHERS (Coraciiformes):
Belted kingfisher
OWLS (Strigiformes):
Barred owl
Great horned owl
Northern spotted owl
PELICANS, CORMORANTS AND FRIGATEBIRDS (Suliformes): 
American white pelican
Brown pelican
Great blue heron
Pelagic cormorant
PERCHING BIRDS (Passeriformes):
American crow
Common raven
Mountain chickadee
White-crowned sparrow
American robin
Gold-crowned kinglet
Olive-sided flycatcher
Black-capped chickadee
Gray jay
Pacific wren
Brown creeper
Hermit thrush
Rufous-sided towhee
SHOREBIRDS (Charadriiformes):
American golden plover
Horned puffin
Short tailed albatross
Western snowy plover
Black oystercatcher
Marbeled murrelet
Tufted puffin
Willet
Common murre
Pigeon guillemot
Western gull
Herring gull
Rhinoceros auklet
Western sandpiper
WATERFOWL (Anseriformes):
Canada goose
Northern pintail
Dusky Canada goose
Surf scoter
Hooded merganser
Wood duck
Mallard
WOODPECKERS AND RELATIVES (Piciformes):
Acorn woodpecker
Northern flicker
Western pileated woodpecker
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