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The profiles of about 600 species are complete.  Additional profiles are being added.

The basic bird profiles were primarily written by Dan Reinking. Dan works for the George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center and is past president of the Oklahoma Ornithological Society.

Some profiles were written and/or edited by Sam Crowe.

The Bent Life History series was originally published by the Smithsonian, from the 1920s until the 1950s.

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Hooded Pitohui – The Only Poisonous Bird In The World

How to Identify Great-eared Nightjar + Facts

Great Potoo (The Ghost Bird) – All We Know About This Bird

American Flamingo

Snowy Owl

Marbled Murrelet

Black Phoebe (Identification)

Varied Thrush

Dusky Grouse (formerly known as Blue Grouse)

Identifying Scott’s Orioles

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

How to Identify Scarlet Tanager

Say’s Phoebe

Sandhill Crane

Rufous Hummingbird

Ruffed Grouse

Ruddy Duck

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Get To Know Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Rough-legged Hawk

Roseate Spoonbill

Identifying Rose-breasted Grosbeaks

Rock Pigeon

Ring-Billed Gull

Redhead (Duck)

How To Identify a Red-winged Blackbird

Red-tailed Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Identifying Red-naped Sapsuckers

Red-headed Woodpecker

Red-eyed Vireo

Red-cockaded Woodpecker Identification & Facts

Red-breasted Sapsuckers – Get To Know & Identify Them

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Red-breasted Merganser

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Razorbill

Pyrrhuloxia

Purple Martin – Identification, Vocalization, Food & Nesting

Purple Gallinule

Purple Finch

Prairie Falcon

Pine Warbler

Pine Siskin

Pine Grosbeak

Pileated Woodpecker (Bird)

How To Identify Peregrine Falcon (Compared To Other Species)

Palm Warbler

Painted Bunting

Ovenbird

Osprey: Identification and Facts

Orchard Oriole

Orange-crowned Warbler

Nuttall’s Woodpecker

Northern Shoveler

Northern Saw-whet Owl

Northern Pintail

Northern Parula

Northern Mockingbird

Northern Hawk Owl

Northern Harrier

Northern Goshawk

Northern Flicker

Northern Cardinal

Mute Swan

Mourning Dove

Mountain Bluebird

Merlin

Mallard (Duck)

Magnolia Warbler

Lucifer Hummingbird

Long-tailed Duck

Long-eared Owl

Loggerhead Shrike

Little Blue Heron

Limpkin (Identification, Range, Sound, Facts & More)

Lewis’s Woodpecker

Lesser Scaup

Lesser Goldfinch

Least Bittern

Lazuli Bunting

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

King Eider

Killdeer

Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Indigo Bunting

House Wren

House Sparrow

House Finch

Hooded Oriole

Hooded Merganser

Herring Gull

Hermit Thrush

Hepatic Tanager

Harris’s Hawk

Harlequin Duck

Hairy Woodpecker

Gyrfalcon

Green-winged Teal

Green Heron

Greater Scaup

Great-tailed Grackle

Great Horned Owl

Great Gray Owl

Great Egret

Great Crested Flycatcher

Great Blue Heron

Canada Jay (Previously Gray Jay)

Gray Catbird

How To Identify Golden-fronted Woodpeckers In The Wild?

Identify and Know a Golden Eagle

Golden-Crowned Kinglet

Identifying Gilded Flickers

Gila Woodpecker

Gadwall (Duck)

Fox Sparrow

Flammulated Owl

Field Sparrow

Ferruginous Hawk

Evening Grosbeak

European Starling

Eurasian Wigeon

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Emperor Goose

Elf Owl

Eastern Whip-poor-will

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Eastern Towhee

Eastern Screech-Owl

How To Identify Eastern Phoebes – Habits & Lifecycle

Eastern Meadowlark

Eastern Bluebird

Dunlin

Downy Woodpecker

How To Successfully Identify Double-crested Cormorants?

How To Identify Sharp-shinned Hawk

Dark-eyed Junco

Costa’s Hummingbird

Cooper’s Hawk – Interesting Facts & Identification

Common Yellowthroat

Common Poorwill

Common Nighthawk (Bird)

Common Merganser

Common Loon

Common Grackle

Common Goldeneye

Common Eider

Short-eared Owl

Snow Goose

Snowy Egret

Cinnamon Teal

Chukar

Song Sparrow

Chuck-will’s-widow

Chipping Sparrow

Chimney Swift

Spotted Owl

Spotted Towhee

Cedar Waxwing

Steller’s Jay

Summer Tanager

Surf Scoter

Swainson’s Hawk

Swainson’s Thrush

Zone-tailed Hawk

Tree Swallow

Tricolored Heron

Cassin’s Finch

Trumpeter Swan

Tufted Titmouse (Bird)

Turkey Vulture

Caspian Tern

Carolina Wren

Carolina Chickadee

Veery

Canvasback

Canada Goose

Calliope Hummingbird

California Quail

California Condor

Cactus Wren

Burrowing Owl

Bullock’s Oriole

Bufflehead

Brown Thrasher

Brown Pelican

Brown-headed Cowbird

Brown Creeper

Broad-winged Hawk

Broad-Tailed Hummingbird

Broad-billed Hummingbird

Brewer’s Blackbird

Boreal Owl

Bohemian Waxwing

How To Identify Bobolinks?

Blue-winged Teal

How to Identify and Attract Blue Jays?

Blue Grosbeak Identification

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Blue-footed Booby

Western Bluebird

Black Vulture

Western Meadowlark

Western Screech-Owl

Western Tanager

White-breasted Nuthatch

Black-throated Blue Warbler

White-crowned Sparrow

White-eyed Vireo

White-headed Woodpecker

White-tailed Hawk

White-throated Sparrow

Whooping Crane

Wild Turkey

Williamson’s Sapsucker

Wood Duck

Wood Stork

Wood Thrush – Identification, Nesting Habits & Facts

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Black-billed Magpie

Yellow Warbler

Black-capped Chickadee

Black-Backed Woodpecker

Belted Kingfisher

Barred Owl

Barn Swallow

Barn Owl

Baltimore Oriole (ID, Facts & Pictures)

Bald Eagle (All You Need To Know)

Arizona Woodpecker

Anhinga

American Woodcock

American Wigeon (Male and Female Identification)

American White Pelican

American Three-toed Woodpecker

Get To Know The Precious American Robin [Field Guide]

American Kestrel

American Goldfinch

American Dipper

American Crow

American Coot

American Black Duck

Allen’s Hummingbird

American Bittern

Acorn Woodpecker

Abert’s Towhee

Anna’s Hummingbird

Common Raven

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