Birds of California

900 bird species have been recorded in California on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 898 of them have a full profile in the Birbs encyclopedia — start with the well-known birds below, browse the complete list, then check which are being reported near you right now.

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Birds to know first

• Abert’s TowheeMelozone aberti
• Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorus
• African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
• African DarterAnhinga rufa
• African FirefinchLagonosticta rubricata
• African Sacred IbisThreskiornis aethiopicus
• Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
• Alexandrine ParakeetPsittacula eupatria
• Allen’s HummingbirdSelasphorus sasin
• American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
• American Barn OwlTyto furcata
• American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
• American Black DuckAnas rubripes
• American Black SwiftCypseloides niger
• American BushtitPsaltriparus minimus
• American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
• American CootFulica americana
• American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
• American DipperCinclus mexicanus
• American Dusky FlycatcherEmpidonax oberholseri
• American FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber
• American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
• American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
• American Grey FlycatcherEmpidonax wrightii
• American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
• American KestrelFalco sparverius
• American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
• American PipitAnthus rubescens
• American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
• American RobinTurdus migratorius

The full checklist — 898 birds of California in our library

• Abert’s Towhee
• Acorn Woodpecker
• African Collared Dove
• African Darter
• African Firefinch
• African Sacred Ibis
• Ainley’s Storm Petrel
• Alder Flycatcher
• Alexandrine Parakeet
• Allen’s Hummingbird
• American Avocet
• American Barn Owl
• American Bittern
• American Black Duck
• American Black Swift
• American Bushtit
• American Cliff Swallow
• American Coot
• American Crow
• American Dipper
• American Dusky Flycatcher
• American Flamingo
• American Golden Plover
• American Goldfinch
• American Goshawk
• American Grey Flycatcher
• American Herring Gull
• American Kestrel
• American Oystercatcher
• American Pipit
• American Redstart
• American Robin
• American Tree Sparrow
• American White Ibis
• American White Pelican
• American Wigeon
• American Woodcock
• American Yellow Warbler
• Ancient Murrelet
• Anhinga
• Anna’s Hummingbird
• Arctic Tern
• Arctic Warbler
• Ash-throated Flycatcher
• Ashy Storm Petrel
• Atlantic Canary
• Baikal Teal
• Baird’s Sandpiper
• Baird’s Sparrow
• Bald Eagle
• Bali Starling
• Baltimore Oriole
• Band-rumped Storm Petrel
• Band-tailed Pigeon
• Bar-headed Goose
• Bar-tailed Godwit
• Barn Swallow
• Barnacle Goose
• Barred Owl
• Barrow’s Goldeneye
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Belcher’s Gull
• Bell’s Sparrow
• Bell’s Vireo
• Belted Kingfisher
• Bendire’s Thrasher
• Bewick’s Wren
• Black Francolin
• Black Oystercatcher
• Black Petrel
• Black Phoebe
• Black Rail
• Black Rosy Finch
• Black Scoter
• Black Siskin
• Black Skimmer
• Black Storm Petrel
• Black Swan
• Black Tern
• Black Turnstone
• Black Vulture
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Black-backed Oriole
• Black-backed Woodpecker
• Black-bellied Whistling Duck
• Black-billed Cuckoo
• Black-billed Magpie
• Black-capped Chickadee
• Black-capped Parakeet
• Black-chinned Hummingbird
• Black-chinned Sparrow
• Black-crowned Night Heron
• Black-footed Albatross
• Black-headed Grosbeak
• Black-headed Gull
• Black-headed Weaver
• Black-legged Kittiwake
• Black-necked Grebe
• Black-necked Stilt
• Black-necked Swan
• Black-rumped Waxbill
• Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
• Black-tailed Gull
• Black-throated Blue Warbler
• Black-throated Canary
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Black-throated Grey Warbler
• Black-throated Loon
• Black-throated Magpie-Jay
• Black-throated Sparrow
• Black-vented Shearwater
• Black-winged Red Bishop
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Blue Dacnis
• Blue Grosbeak
• Blue Jay
• Blue Mockingbird
• Blue Rock Thrush
• Blue-and-yellow Macaw
• Blue-black Grassquit
• Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
• Blue-crowned Parakeet
• Blue-footed Booby
• Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
• Blue-grey Tanager
• Blue-headed Vireo
• Blue-throated Mountaingem
• Blue-winged Teal
• Blue-winged Warbler
• Bluethroat
• Bobolink
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Bonaparte’s Gull
• Bourke’s Parrot
• Brahminy Starling
• Brambling
• Brandt’s Cormorant
• Brant Goose
• Brewer’s Blackbird
• Brewer’s Sparrow
• Bridled Tern
• Bristle-thighed Curlew
• Broad-billed Hummingbird
• Broad-tailed Hummingbird
• Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Bronze Mannikin
• Bronzed Cowbird
• Brown Creeper
• Brown Pelican
• Brown Quail
• Brown Shrike
• Brown Thrasher
• Brown-crested Flycatcher
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Budgerigar
• Buff-breasted Flycatcher
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Buff-collared Nightjar
• Bufflehead
• Buller’s Shearwater
• Bulwer’s Petrel
• Burrowing Owl
• Burrowing Parrot
• Cackling Goose
• Cactus Wren
• California Condor
• California Gnatcatcher
• California Gull
• California Quail
• California Scrub Jay
• California Thrasher
• California Towhee
• Calliope Hummingbird
• Canada Goose
• Canada Jay
• Canada Warbler
• Canvasback
• Canyon Wren
• Cape May Warbler
• Caspian Tern
• Cassia Crossbill
• Cassin’s Auklet
• Cassin’s Finch
• Cassin’s Kingbird
• Cassin’s Sparrow
• Cassin’s Vireo
• Cave Swallow
• Cedar Waxwing
• Cerulean Warbler
• Chatham Albatross
• Chestnut Munia
• Chestnut-backed Chickadee
• Chestnut-collared Longspur
• Chestnut-sided Warbler
• Chihuahuan Meadowlark
• Chilean Flamingo
• Chiloe Wigeon
• Chimney Swift
• Chipping Sparrow
• Chuck-will’s-widow
• Chukar Partridge
• Cinereous Tit
• Cinnamon Teal
• Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater
• Citrine Wagtail
• Clark’s Grebe
• Clark’s Nutcracker
• Clay-colored Sparrow
• Cockatiel
• Cocos Booby
• Common Black Hawk
• Common Blackbird
• Common Crane
• Common Cuckoo
• Common Eider
• Common Gallinule
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Grackle
• Common Greenshank
• Common Ground Dove
• Common Gull
• Common Hill Myna
• Common Kestrel
• Common Loon
• Common Merganser
• Common Murre
• Common Myna
• Common Nighthawk
• Common Ostrich
• Common Pheasant
• Common Pochard
• Common Poorwill
• Common Quail
• Common Ringed Plover
• Common Rosefinch
• Common Scoter
• Common Shelduck
• Common Snipe
• Common Starling
• Common Swift
• Common Tern
• Common Waxbill
• Common Yellowthroat
• Connecticut Warbler
• Cook’s Petrel
• Cooper’s Hawk
• Cory’s Shearwater
• Costa’s Hummingbird
• Couch’s Kingbird
• Craveri’s Murrelet
• Crested Auklet
• Crested Caracara
• Crested Duck
• Crested Myna
• Crested Oropendola
• Crested Pigeon
• Crimson Rosella
• Crimson-rumped Waxbill
• Crissal Thrasher
• Curlew Sandpiper
• Curve-billed Thrasher
• Cut-throat Finch
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Dark-sided Flycatcher
• Demoiselle Crane
• Diamond Dove
• Diamond Firetail
• Dickcissel
• Double-barred Finch
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Downy Woodpecker
• Dunlin
• Dusky Warbler
• Dusky-capped Flycatcher
• Eastern Kingbird
• Eastern Meadowlark
• Eastern Phoebe
• Eastern Rosella
• Eastern Warbling Vireo
• Eastern Whip-poor-will
• Eastern Wood Pewee
• Eastern Yellow Wagtail
• Egyptian Goose
• Elegant Tern
• Elf Owl
• Emperor Goose
• Emu
• Epaulet Oriole
• Eurasian Blue Tit
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Eurasian Dotterel
• Eurasian Magpie
• Eurasian Skylark
• Eurasian Teal
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow
• Eurasian Whimbrel
• Eurasian Wigeon
• Eurasian Wryneck
• European Goldfinch
• European Greenfinch
• European Serin
• Evening Grosbeak
• Eyebrowed Thrush
• Falcated Duck
• Ferruginous Hawk
• Field Sparrow
• Fischer’s Lovebird
• Flammulated Owl
• Flesh-footed Shearwater
• Fork-tailed Flycatcher
• Fork-tailed Storm Petrel
• Forster’s Tern
• Franklin’s Gull
• Fulvous Whistling Duck
• Gadwall
• Gambel’s Quail
• Garganey
• Gila Woodpecker
• Gilded Flicker
• Glaucous Gull
• Glaucous-winged Gull
• Glossy Ibis
• Golden Eagle
• Golden Palm Weaver
• Golden Pheasant
• Golden-cheeked Warbler
• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Golden-crowned Sparrow
• Golden-fronted Leafbird
• Golden-winged Warbler
• Gouldian Finch
• Grace’s Warbler
• Grasshopper Sparrow
• Grassland Yellow Finch
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Great Egret
• Great Frigatebird
• Great Grey Owl
• Great Horned Owl
• Great Shearwater
• Great Tit
• Great-tailed Grackle
• Greater Flamingo
• Greater Pewee
• Greater Roadrunner
• Greater Sand Plover
• Greater Scaup
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Green Heron
• Green Jay
• Green Parakeet
• Green Pheasant
• Green-cheeked Parakeet
• Green-tailed Towhee
• Green-winged Pytilia
• Grey Catbird
• Grey Crowned Crane
• Grey Go-away-bird
• Grey Hawk
• Grey Parrot
• Grey Partridge
• Grey Peacock-Pheasant
• Grey Plover
• Grey Silky-flycatcher
• Grey Thrasher
• Grey Vireo
• Grey Wagtail
• Grey-cheeked Thrush
• Grey-crowned Goldfinch
• Grey-crowned Rosy Finch
• Grey-faced Petrel
• Grey-tailed Tattler
• Greylag Goose
• Groove-billed Ani
• Guadalupe Murrelet
• Gull-billed Tern
• Gyrfalcon
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Hammond’s Flycatcher
• Harlequin Duck
• Harris’s Hawk
• Harris’s Sparrow
• Hawaiian Petrel
• Hawfinch
• Heermann’s Gull
• Helmeted Guineafowl
• Hermit Thrush
• Hermit Warbler
• Hooded Merganser
• Hooded Oriole
• Hooded Siskin
• Hooded Warbler
• Horned Grebe
• Horned Lark
• Horned Puffin
• House Crow
• House Finch
• House Sparrow
• Hudsonian Godwit
• Hudsonian Whimbrel
• Hutton’s Vireo
• Hyacinth Macaw
• Iceland Gull
• Inca Dove
• Indian Peafowl
• Indian Silverbill
• Indian White-eye
• Indigo Bunting
• Island Scrub Jay
• Ivory Gull
• Jack Snipe
• Jandaya Parakeet
• Japanese Quail
• Jouanin’s Petrel
• Juniper Titmouse
• Kalij Pheasant
• Keel-billed Toucan
• Kelp Gull
• Kentucky Warbler
• Kermadec Petrel
• Killdeer
• King Eider
• King Quail
• Kittlitz’s Murrelet
• Ladder-backed Woodpecker
• Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
• Lanceolated Warbler
• Lapland Longspur
• Lark Bunting
• Lark Sparrow
• Laughing Dove
• Laughing Gull
• Lawrence’s Goldfinch
• Laysan Albatross
• Lazuli Bunting
• Leach’s Storm Petrel
• Least Auklet
• Least Bittern
• Least Flycatcher
• Least Grebe
• Least Sandpiper
• Least Storm Petrel
• Least Tern
• LeConte’s Sparrow
• LeConte’s Thrasher
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Lesser Flamingo
• Lesser Frigatebird
• Lesser Goldfinch
• Lesser Nighthawk
• Lesser Scaup
• Lesser Yellowlegs
• Lewis’s Woodpecker
• Light-mantled Albatross
• Lilac-breasted Roller
• Lilac-crowned Amazon
• Lincoln’s Sparrow
• Little Blue Heron
• Little Bunting
• Little Curlew
• Little Gull
• Little Stint
• Loggerhead Shrike
• Long-billed Curlew
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Long-billed Murrelet
• Long-eared Owl
• Long-tailed Duck
• Long-tailed Jaeger
• Long-toed Stint
• Louisiana Waterthrush
• Lucy’s Warbler
• MacGillivray’s Warbler
• Magnificent Frigatebird
• Magnolia Warbler
• Mallard
• Mandarin Duck
• Mangrove Warbler
• Manx Shearwater
• Marbled Godwit
• Marbled Murrelet
• Maroon-bellied Parakeet
• Marsh Sandpiper
• Marsh Wren
• Masked Booby
• Mealy Amazon
• Merlin
• Mexican Duck
• Mexican Violetear
• Mexican Whip-poor-will
• Meyer’s Parrot
• Military Macaw
• Mississippi Kite
• Mitred Parakeet
• Monk Parakeet
• Mottled Petrel
• Mountain Bluebird
• Mountain Chickadee
• Mountain Plover
• Mountain Pygmy Owl
• Mountain Quail
• Mourning Dove
• Mourning Warbler
• Murphy’s Petrel
• Muscovy Duck
• Mute Swan
• Myrtle Warbler
• Namaqua Dove
• Nanday Parakeet
• Nashville Warbler
• Nazca Booby
• Nelson’s Sparrow
• Nene
• Neotropic Cormorant
• Newell’s Shearwater
• Northern Bobwhite
• Northern Cardinal
• Northern Flicker
• Northern Fulmar
• Northern Gannet
• Northern Harrier
• Northern House Wren
• Northern Mockingbird
• Northern Parula
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Raven
• Northern Red Bishop
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Northern Saw-whet Owl
• Northern Shoveler
• Northern Shrike
• Northern Waterthrush
• Northern Wheatear
• Nuttall’s Woodpecker
• Nutting’s Flycatcher
• Oak Titmouse
• Olive-backed Pipit
• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Orange-breasted Bunting
• Orange-breasted Waxbill
• Orange-cheeked Waxbill
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Orange-fronted Parakeet
• Orange-winged Amazon
• Orchard Oriole
• Oriental Greenfinch
• Oriental Pied Hornbill
• Oriental Turtle Dove
• Osprey
• Ovenbird
• Pacific Golden Plover
• Pacific Loon
• Pacific Parrotlet
• Pacific Wren
• Painted Bunting
• Painted Whitestart
• Palm Warbler
• Parakeet Auklet
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Parrot-billed Seedeater
• Pearl Kite
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Pelagic Cormorant
• Peregrine Falcon
• Phainopepla
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Pied Crow
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Pigeon Guillemot
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Pin-tailed Whydah
• Pine Grosbeak
• Pine Siskin
• Pine Warbler
• Pink-backed Pelican
• Pink-footed Shearwater
• Pinyon Jay
• Piping Plover
• Plumbeous Vireo
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Prairie Falcon
• Prairie Warbler
• Prothonotary Warbler
• Purple Finch
• Purple Gallinule
• Purple Martin
• Purple Sandpiper
• Purple Starling
• Pygmy Nuthatch
• Pyrrhuloxia
• Rainbow Lorikeet
• Red Avadavat
• Red Crossbill
• Red Fox Sparrow
• Red Junglefowl
• Red Knot
• Red Phalarope
• Red Tanager
• Red-and-green Macaw
• Red-billed Firefinch
• Red-billed Leiothrix
• Red-billed Tropicbird
• Red-breasted Goose
• Red-breasted Merganser
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Red-breasted Sapsucker
• Red-browed Finch
• Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
• Red-crested Cardinal
• Red-crested Pochard
• Red-crowned Amazon
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Red-faced Warbler
• Red-flanked Bluetail
• Red-footed Booby
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Red-legged Kittiwake
• Red-lored Amazon
• Red-masked Parakeet
• Red-naped Sapsucker
• Red-necked Grebe
• Red-necked Phalarope
• Red-necked Stint
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• Red-tailed Tropicbird
• Red-throated Loon
• Red-throated Pipit
• Red-throated Twinspot
• Red-vented Bulbul
• Red-whiskered Bulbul
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Reddish Egret
• Redhead
• Redpoll
• Reeves’s Pheasant
• Rhinoceros Auklet
• Ridgway’s Rail
• Ring-billed Gull
• Ring-necked Duck
• Ringed Storm Petrel
• Ringed Teal
• Rivoli’s Hummingbird
• Rock Dove
• Rock Sandpiper
• Rock Wren
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Rose-ringed Parakeet
• Roseate Spoonbill
• Ross’s Goose
• Ross’s Gull
• Rosy-faced Lovebird
• Rough-legged Buzzard
• Royal Tern
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Ruddy Duck
• Ruddy Ground Dove
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Ruff
• Ruffed Grouse
• Rufous Hummingbird
• Rufous-backed Thrush
• Rufous-crowned Sparrow
• Rustic Bunting
• Rusty Blackbird
• Sabine’s Gull
• Saffron Finch
• Sage Grouse
• Sage Thrasher
• Sagebrush Sparrow
• Salvin’s Albatross
• Sand Martin
• Sanderling
• Sandhill Crane
• Sandwich Tern
• Savanna Hawk
• Savannah Sparrow
• Say’s Phoebe
• Scaled Quail
• Scaly-breasted Munia
• Scaly-headed Parrot
• Scarlet Macaw
• Scarlet Tanager
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• Scott’s Oriole
• Scripps’s Murrelet
• Sedge Wren
• Semipalmated Plover
• Semipalmated Sandpiper
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Sharp-tailed Grouse
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
• Short-billed Dowitcher
• Short-billed Gull
• Short-eared Owl
• Short-tailed Albatross
• Short-tailed Shearwater
• Shy Albatross
• Siberian Pipit
• Siberian Rubythroat
• Siberian Sand Plover
• Silver Pheasant
• Slate-throated Whitestart
• Slaty-backed Gull
• Small-billed Elaenia
• Smew
• Smith’s Longspur
• Snow Bunting
• Snow Goose
• Snowy Egret
• Snowy Owl
• Snowy Plover
• Solitary Sandpiper
• Song Sparrow
• Song Thrush
• Sooty Grouse
• Sooty Shearwater
• Sooty Tern
• Sora
• South African Shelduck
• South Polar Skua
• Southern Masked Weaver
• Southern Red Bishop
• Speckled Pigeon
• Spotted Dove
• Spotted Owl
• Spotted Redshank
• Spotted Sandpiper
• Spotted Towhee
• Sprague’s Pipit
• Star Finch
• Stejneger’s Petrel
• Stejneger’s Scoter
• Steller’s Eider
• Steller’s Jay
• Stilt Sandpiper
• Streak-backed Oriole
• Streaked Shearwater
• Streaky Seedeater
• Sudan Golden Sparrow
• Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
• Summer Tanager
• Sun Parakeet
• Sunda Zebra Finch
• Surf Scoter
• Surfbird
• Swainson’s Hawk
• Swainson’s Thrush
• Swallow-tailed Gull
• Swallow-tailed Kite
• Swamp Sparrow
• Swan Goose
• Swinhoe’s White-eye
• Taiga Flycatcher
• Taveta Weaver
• Tennessee Warbler
• Terek Sandpiper
• Thick-billed Kingbird
• Thick-billed Longspur
• Thick-billed Murre
• Togo Paradise Whydah
• Townsend’s Solitaire
• Townsend’s Storm Petrel
• Townsend’s Warbler
• Tree Swallow
• Tricolored Blackbird
• Tricolored Heron
• Tricolored Munia
• Tristram’s Storm Petrel
• Tropical Kingbird
• Tropical Parula
• Trumpeter Swan
• Tufted Duck
• Tufted Puffin
• Tundra Bean Goose
• Tundra Swan
• Turkey Vulture
• Turquoise-fronted Amazon
• Two-barred Crossbill
• Upland Goose
• Upland Sandpiper
• Varied Bunting
• Varied Thrush
• Vaux’s Swift
• Veery
• Vega Gull
• Venezuelan Troupial
• Verdin
• Vermilion Flycatcher
• Vesper Sparrow
• Village Indigobird
• Village Weaver
• Vinous-throated Parrotbill
• Violet-crowned Hummingbird
• Violet-green Swallow
• Virginia Rail
• Virginia’s Warbler
• Wandering Tattler
• Waved Albatross
• Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel
• Wedge-tailed Shearwater
• Western Bluebird
• Western Cattle Egret
• Western Flycatcher
• Western Grebe
• Western Gull
• Western Kingbird
• Western Meadowlark
• Western Sandpiper
• Western Screech Owl
• Western Tanager
• Western Warbling Vireo
• Western Wood Pewee
• White Wagtail
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• White-cheeked Pintail
• White-cheeked Turaco
• White-chinned Petrel
• White-collared Swift
• White-crowned Sparrow
• White-eared Bulbul
• White-eyed Parakeet
• White-eyed Vireo
• White-faced Ibis
• White-fronted Amazon
• White-headed Munia
• White-headed Woodpecker
• White-lined Tanager
• White-rumped Munia
• White-rumped Sandpiper
• White-rumped Seedeater
• White-tailed Eagle
• White-tailed Kite
• White-tailed Ptarmigan
• White-tailed Tropicbird
• White-throated Magpie-Jay
• White-throated Sparrow
• White-throated Swift
• White-winged Dove
• White-winged Parakeet
• White-winged Scoter
• White-winged Tern
• White-winged Widowbird
• Whooper Swan
• Wild Turkey
• Willet
• Williamson’s Sapsucker
• Willow Flycatcher
• Willow Warbler
• Wilson’s Phalarope
• Wilson’s Plover
• Wilson’s Snipe
• Wilson’s Storm Petrel
• Wilson’s Warbler
• Winter Wren
• Wood Duck
• Wood Sandpiper
• Wood Stork
• Wood Thrush
• Wood Warbler
• Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay
• Worm-eating Warbler
• Wrentit
• Xantus’s Hummingbird
• Yellow Grosbeak
• Yellow Rail
• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Yellow-billed Cardinal
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Yellow-billed Loon
• Yellow-breasted Chat
• Yellow-browed Warbler
• Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
• Yellow-collared Lovebird
• Yellow-crowned Amazon
• Yellow-crowned Bishop
• Yellow-crowned Night Heron
• Yellow-faced Grassquit
• Yellow-footed Gull
• Yellow-fronted Canary
• Yellow-green Vireo
• Yellow-headed Amazon
• Yellow-headed Blackbird
• Yellow-headed Caracara
• Yellow-throated Vireo
• Yellow-throated Warbler
• Zanzibar Red Bishop
• Zebra Dove
• Zone-tailed Hawk

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Birds of California by bird group

• Ducks, Geese & Swans of California (74 species)
• Sandpipers & Allies of California (52 species)
• New World Warblers of California (48 species)
• Parrots, Cockatoos & Allies of California (46 species)
• Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of California (43 species)
• New World Sparrows of California (32 species)
• Tyrant Flycatchers of California (32 species)
• True Finches of California (30 species)
• Waxbills & Munias of California (26 species)
• Petrels & Shearwaters of California (24 species)
• New World Blackbirds & Orioles of California (23 species)
• Pheasants, Grouse & Allies of California (23 species)
• Hawks, Eagles & Kites of California (22 species)
• Woodpeckers of California (18 species)

Species lists and counts come from the eBird network; "recorded" means reported by birders to eBird. Tap any bird for its full profile, photos, sounds and ID notes.