Birds of Alabama
495 bird species have been recorded in Alabama on the eBird network — explore the 494 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
495 bird species have been recorded in Alabama on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 494 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
Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
Allen’s HummingbirdSelasphorus sasin
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
American Barn OwlTyto furcata
American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
American Black DuckAnas rubripes
American Black SwiftCypseloides niger
American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
American CootFulica americana
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
American Dusky FlycatcherEmpidonax oberholseri
American FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
American KestrelFalco sparverius
American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
American PipitAnthus rubescens
American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
American RobinTurdus migratorius
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arborea
American White IbisEudocimus albus
American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
American WigeonMareca americana
American WoodcockScolopax minor
American Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestiva
AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
Anna’s HummingbirdCalypte anna
The full checklist — 494 birds of Alabama in our library
- Acadian Flycatcher
- African Collared Dove
- Alder Flycatcher
- Allen’s Hummingbird
- American Avocet
- American Barn Owl
- American Bittern
- American Black Duck
- American Black Swift
- American Cliff Swallow
- American Coot
- American Crow
- American Dusky Flycatcher
- American Flamingo
- American Golden Plover
- American Goldfinch
- American Goshawk
- 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
- Anhinga
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Arctic Tern
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Bachman’s Sparrow
- Bachman’s Warbler
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Band-rumped Storm Petrel
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Barn Swallow
- Barnacle Goose
- Barred Owl
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Bell’s Vireo
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bewick’s Wren
- Black Rail
- Black Scoter
- Black Skimmer
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black Vulture
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-capped Petrel
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-necked Stilt
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Black-throated Grey Warbler
- Black-whiskered Vireo
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue Grosbeak
- Blue Jay
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Blue-throated Mountaingem
- Blue-winged Teal
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Boat-tailed Grackle
- Bobolink
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Brant Goose
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Bridled Tern
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Brown Booby
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Noddy
- Brown Pelican
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-crested Flycatcher
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Brown-headed Nuthatch
- Budgerigar
- Buff-bellied Hummingbird
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Burrowing Owl
- Cackling Goose
- California Gull
- California Quail
- Calliope Hummingbird
- Canada Goose
- Canada Warbler
- Canvasback
- Cape May Warbler
- Carolina Chickadee
- Carolina Parakeet
- Carolina Wren
- Caspian Tern
- Cassin’s Kingbird
- Cave Swallow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Cerulean Warbler
- Chestnut-collared Longspur
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chimney Swift
- Chipping Sparrow
- Chuck-will’s-widow
- Chukar Partridge
- Cinnamon Teal
- Clapper Rail
- Clark’s Nutcracker
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Cockatiel
- Common Gallinule
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grackle
- Common Ground Dove
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Myna
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Pheasant
- Common Starling
- Common Tern
- Common Yellowthroat
- Connecticut Warbler
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Cory’s Shearwater
- Costa’s Hummingbird
- Couch’s Kingbird
- Crested Caracara
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Dickcissel
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Downy Woodpecker
- Dunlin
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Screech Owl
- Eastern Towhee
- Eastern Warbling Vireo
- Eastern Whip-poor-will
- Eastern Wood Pewee
- Egyptian Goose
- Emu
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Jay
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Evening Grosbeak
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Field Sparrow
- Fish Crow
- Flammulated Owl
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Garganey
- Glaucous Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden Eagle
- Golden-cheeked Warbler
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Kiskadee
- Great Shearwater
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Gull
- Grey Kingbird
- Grey Plover
- Grey-cheeked Thrush
- Greylag Goose
- Groove-billed Ani
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Hammond’s Flycatcher
- Harlequin Duck
- Harris’s Hawk
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Henslow’s Sparrow
- Hermit Thrush
- Hooded Merganser
- Hooded Oriole
- Hooded Warbler
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Iceland Gull
- Inca Dove
- Indian Peafowl
- Indigo Bunting
- Ivory Gull
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Kentucky Warbler
- Killdeer
- King Rail
- Kirtland’s Warbler
- La Sagra’s Flycatcher
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Bunting
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Gull
- Lazuli Bunting
- Leach’s Storm Petrel
- Least Bittern
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Sandpiper
- Least Tern
- LeConte’s Sparrow
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Lesser Nighthawk
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Limpkin
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Little Blue Heron
- Little Gull
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Long-billed Curlew
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- MacGillivray’s Warbler
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Mangrove Cuckoo
- Manx Shearwater
- Marbled Godwit
- Marsh Wren
- Masked Booby
- Merlin
- Mexican Violetear
- Mississippi Kite
- Monk Parakeet
- Mottled Duck
- Mountain Plover
- Mourning Dove
- Mourning Warbler
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Myrtle Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Nelson’s Sparrow
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Northern Bobwhite
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Flicker
- 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 Waterthrush
- Northern Wheatear
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Pacific Loon
- Painted Bunting
- Painted Whitestart
- Palm Warbler
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Passenger Pigeon
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Pine Siskin
- Pine Warbler
- Piping Plover
- Plumbeous Vireo
- Plumed Whistling Duck
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Prairie Falcon
- Prairie Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Martin
- Purple Sandpiper
- Razorbill
- Red Crossbill
- Red Fox Sparrow
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-billed Tropicbird
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker
- Red-crested Pochard
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-footed Booby
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Reddish Egret
- Redhead
- Redpoll
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Ringed Teal
- Rivoli’s Hummingbird
- Rock Dove
- Rock Wren
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Roseate Tern
- Ross’s Goose
- Rosy-billed Pochard
- Rosy-faced Lovebird
- Rough-legged Buzzard
- Royal Tern
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Shelduck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Ruffed Grouse
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Rusty Blackbird
- Sabine’s Gull
- Sage Thrasher
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Sandwich Tern
- Sargasso Shearwater
- Savannah Sparrow
- Say’s Phoebe
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- Scarlet Tanager
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Scopoli’s Shearwater
- Scott’s Oriole
- Seaside Sparrow
- Sedge Wren
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Shiny Cowbird
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Short-eared Owl
- Short-tailed Hawk
- Smith’s Longspur
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Snowy Plover
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Sooty Shearwater
- Sooty Tern
- Sora
- South Polar Skua
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Sprague’s Pipit
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
- Summer Tanager
- Surf Scoter
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Swainson’s Warbler
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Swamp Sparrow
- Swan Goose
- Tennessee Warbler
- Thick-billed Longspur
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Tree Swallow
- Tricolored Heron
- Tricolored Munia
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Titmouse
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Thrush
- Vaux’s Swift
- Veery
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Vesper Sparrow
- Virginia Rail
- Virginia’s Warbler
- West Indian Whistling Duck
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western Flycatcher
- Western Grebe
- Western Kingbird
- Western Meadowlark
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Tanager
- White Wagtail
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-cheeked Pintail
- White-crowned Pigeon
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-eared Hummingbird
- White-eyed Vireo
- White-faced Ibis
- White-faced Whistling Duck
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Hawk
- White-tailed Kite
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-winged Dove
- White-winged Scoter
- Whooping Crane
- Wild Turkey
- Willet
- Willow Flycatcher
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wilson’s Plover
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Wilson’s Storm Petrel
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Winter Wren
- Wood Duck
- Wood Stork
- Wood Thrush
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Yellow Rail
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
- Yellow-green Vireo
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellow-throated Warbler
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Birds of Alabama by bird group
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Alabama (55 species)
- New World Warblers of Alabama (44 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Alabama (33 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Alabama (30 species)
- Tyrant Flycatchers of Alabama (26 species)
- New World Sparrows of Alabama (25 species)
- Hawks, Eagles & Kites of Alabama (18 species)
- New World Blackbirds & Orioles of Alabama (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.
Frequently asked questions
How many bird species are in Alabama?
495 species have been recorded in Alabama on eBird; 494 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Alabama right now?
Use the Birds Near You tool to see species reported near you in the last few days, or browse the full checklist on this page.