1. Barn Owl
   Maui Parrotbill
2. Akialoa
   Nukupuu

The barn owl was voted Britain’s favourite farmland bird by the public in an RSPB poll in July 2007. The barn owl’s heart-shaped face collects sound in the same way as human ears. Its hearing is the most sensitive of any creature tested. It’s not uncommon for barn owl chicks in the nest to feed each other.

1. Lanai Hookbill
   Common Gull
2. Greater Amakihi
   Arctic Tern

The common gull is a medium-sized gull which breeds in northern Asia, northern Europe and northwestern North America. Young birds have scaly black-brown upper parts and a neat wing pattern, with grey legs. It is 2-3 years before they reach maturity. Their call is high-pitched.

1. Sage Sparrow
   Abert's Towhee
2. Yellow Cardinal
   Quail

Quails bathe in the dust to eliminate pests from their feathers and to keep their plumage clean. Chicks of most quail species are precocial. That means that baby birds are well developed and ready to leave the nest and follow their parents shortly after birth.

1. Olive Sparrow
   Jay
2. Rufous-naped Brush-Finch
   Yellow Cardinal

Jays are omnivores, but they mainly stick to vegetation, berries, acorns, and other things like that. They are infamous historically for being loathed egg eaters of other birds, but this behavior is actually quite rare for them. Bluejays are very aggressive and territorial.

1. Kakawahie
   Nukupuu
2. Bewick's Swan
   Hawaii Creeper

The Bewick’s swan is one of the most established winter visitors to the United Kingdom. There are up to 9,000 of these birds migrating there each year. Bewick’s swans mate for life, and during the breeding season the female will normally lay five eggs. Their incubation period is just over four weeks.

1. Moriche Oriole
   Mallard
2. Golden-winged Cacique
   Troupial

The mallard ducklings are almost exclusively insect eaters, only turning to a mainly vegetarian diet as they get older. These birds don’t feed their brood - the babies are able to find their own food as soon as they leave the nest. Only the female duck quacks.

1. Golden Eagle
   Troupial
2. Black-cowled Oriole
   Oriole Blackbird

The golden eagle is North America’s largest bird of prey. It can grow to a length of 3 feet, with a wingspan of 6 to 7 feet. The golden eagle is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere in mountainous areas, canyon lands, riverside cliffs and bluffs, and anywhere the rugged terrain creates frequent updrafts.

1. Raven
   Brambling
2. Warbler
   Serin

In captivity, ravens can learn to talk better than some parrots. They are very good at imitating wolves or foxes, to attract them to carcasses that they can't break open. The ravens get the leftovers. Ravens have been involved in many mythical stories.

1. Collared Dove
   Socotra Bunting
2. Grey Bunting
   Lincoln's Sparrow

There are several species of African doves that look very similar to the collared dove, including the ring-necked, red-eyed, and African mourning doves. They like to feed in company: flocks of up to 10,000 have been recorded in Hungary.

1. Palila
   Gold-naped Finch
2. Canada Goose
   Lanai Hookbill

Canadian geese have a long lifespan. Some can live up to twenty four years in the wild. However, most die within the first year of their life because of predators. Birds are considered the most successful vertebrates. They outnumber mammal species twofold.

1. Yemen Serin
   Warbler
2. Puffin
   Black-eared Seedeater

Atlantic puffins are excellent fliers. They flap their wings at up to 400 beats per minute and can reach speeds of 88 km/h (55mph). The birds’ colorful bills and feet, which fade in the winter and brighten in the spring, help puffins analyze and determine potential mates.

1. Akohekohe
   Pheasant
2. Pink-tailed Bunting
   Yellowhammer

Pheasants are not migratory birds. They stay in their roosts during the cold weather. Pheasants can run at the speed of 8 to 10 miles per hour and fly at the speed of 35 to 45 miles per hour. Pheasants can also swim.

1. Mute Swan
   Buff-throated Saltator
2. Blue Bunting
   Oropendola

The exotic mute swan is the elegant bird of Russian ballets and European fairy tales. This swan swims with its long neck curved into an S and often holds its wings raised slightly above its back. Mute swans are not native to North America.

1. Dipper
   Desert Finch
2. East African Citril
   White-rumped Seedeater

The Dipper is a smallish but chunky bird that lives near western streams. In fact, the American Dipper is North America's only truly aquatic songbird. It catches all of its food underwater in quick streams by swimming and walking on the stream bottom.

1. Feral pigeon
   Kakawahie
2. Akekee
   Yellowhammer

The first images of pigeons were found by archaeologists in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), dating back to 3000BC. To ancient peoples a white pigeon was miraculous. They were widely worshiped and considered to be sacred.

1. Rosy-Finch
   Eurasian Linnet
2. Antillean Siskin
   Dunlin

The Dunlin is a shorebird around the world. Its bright reddish back and black belly, and long, drooping bill, distinguish it from nearly all other shorebirds. It breeds across the top of both North America and Eurasia, and spends winters along coasts around the Northern Hemisphere.

1. Hoary Redpoll
   Yemen Linnet
2. Japanese Grosbeak
   Coal Tit

The Coal Tit is one of Ireland's top twenty common garden birds. It is not as colorful as some of its other close relatives. The Coal Tit has a distinctive grey back, black cap, and white patch at the back of its neck.

1. Black-and-yellow Grosbeak
   Black Brant
2. Palila
   Akialoa

The Black Brant is a small goose of the ocean shores. The Brant breeds in the high Arctic tundra and winters along both coasts. The Brant from the Atlantic have light gray bellies and the Pacific Coast Brants have black bellies. At one point they were considered two separate species.

1. Maui Parrotbill
   Greater Koa-Finch
2. Eider
   Little Bunting

The Eider is a colorful duck of the northern seacoasts, and it is the largest duck in the Northern Hemisphere. Males have bright white, black, and green plumage, while the females are camouflaged in dull striped brown.

1. Pine Warbler
   Northern Waterthrush
2. Peregrine
   Tepui Redstart

The peregrine falcon is quite large; it was known historically as the duck hawk in North America. The peregrine falcon’s prey is plucked before consumption. The lifespan of peregrine falcons in the wild is up to 15.5 years.

1. Chat Tanager
   Drab Hemispingus
2. Kestrel
   Pirre Bush-Tanager

Country kestrels feed almost exclusively on small rodents, but those living in towns will take sparrows instead. Kestrels are Britain’s most widely distributed bird of prey. They can be found breeding throughout the mainland and on many offshore islands.

1. Firecrest
   Brazilian Tanager
2. Sooty Ant-Tanager
   Carmiol's Tanager

The Firecrest is is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family. It breeds in most of temperate Europe and northwestern Africa. A fossil ancestor of the firecrest has been identified from a single wing bone. Firecrests in the Balearic Islands and North Africa are widely recognized as a separate subspecies.

1. Bar-tailed Godwit
   Silver-beaked Tanager
2. Spot-crowned Euphonia
   Great Inca-Finch

The bar-tailed godwit is a large wader in the bird family Scolopacidae. The genus name Limosa is from Latin and means "muddy." Its migration is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird and also the longest journey without pausing to feed by any animal.

1. Dull-colored Grassquit
   Grey Seedeater
2. Slender-billed Finch
   Garden Warbler

The garden warbler itself is hunted by Eurasian sparrowhawks and domestic cats. Its eggs and nestlings are sought after by a variety of mammals and bigger bird predators. Its closest relatives outside the sister group are the African hill babbler and Dohrn's thrush-babbler.

1. Dull-colored Grassquit
   Greater Antillean Bullfinch
2. Golden Plover
   Paramo Seedeater

The golden plover breeds in Alaska and Siberia and spends the winters on islands across the Pacific Ocean, through southeast Asia, and even as far as northeastern Africa. It is uncommon in North America. The oldest recorded Pacific golden plover was at least 21 years old.

1. Large Ground Finch
   Dunnock
2. Dull-colored Grassquit
   Yellow Grosbeak

The dunnock actually has three names - the dunnock, hedge sparrow, and hedge accentor. The fine bill is one of the ways of identifying the dunnock, but it is a hard bird to identify. The dunnock does not breed in pairs, but rather, in groups.

1. Yellow Grosbeak
   Mangrove Finch
2. Northern Cardinal
   Buff-throated Saltator

The yellow grosbeak is a striking bird. The yellow-bodied and dusky-headed male has an imposing air, thanks to his massive bill and fierce eyebrow stripe. This species is declining and becoming uncommon, especially in the eastern United States.

1. Oropendola
   Yellow-billed Blue Finch
2. European White-fronted Goose
   Russet-backed Oropendola

The European or greater white-fronted goose has one of the largest ranges of any species of goose in the world. The global range is thought to be between 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 kilometers. Greater white-fronted geese don’t breed until they are around 3 years old.

1. Russet-backed Oropendola
   Red-rumped Cacique
2. Moriche Oriole
   Kingfisher

There are 87 different species of kingfisher in the world, but only one, Alcedo atthis, that breeds in Europe. Many of the world’s kingfishers don’t eat fish and rarely go near the water. Severe winters can lead to as many as 90% of Britain’s kingfishers dying in a given season.

1. Bay-winged Cowbird
   Red-bellied Grackle
2. Oriole Blackbird
   Wren

The wren is the most common breeding bird in the UK, with 8.5 million breeding pairs. Wrens were first recorded in Anglo-Saxon times, although there is fossil evidence from the last Ice Age, 10-120,000 years ago.

1. Chiffchaff
   Bay-winged Cowbird
2. Bobolink
   Nicaraguan Grackle

The chiffchaff is a short distance migrating bird and due to this has shorter wings than a Willow Warbler (which looks almost identical), giving chiffchaff an exaggerated stocky look. When searching for food, the chiffchaff will frequently dip its tail.

1. Nicaraguan Grackle
   Blackbird
2. Marshbird
   Snowy Owl

Snowy owls are diurnal, which means that unlike most other owls they are active and hunt during the day and night. The feathers of snowy owls have no pigment, leaving more space for air, which helps them to keep warmer because air is such a good insulator.

1. Western Meadowlark
   Snow Goose
2. Marshbird
   Blackbird

The oldest snow goose on record, shot in Texas in 1999, was 27 and a half. Young snow geese feed themselves but are protected by both parents. They remain with their family until they are 2 to 3 years old.

1. Blue Chaffinch
   Whydah
2. Red Grouse
   Brambling

There are 18 different species of grouse. The red grouse is also called a prairie chicken. Kansas has more wild grouse than any other state in the US. Thanks to where they host pockets of feathers, grouse are among the few animals that can survive in Arctic regions.

1. Finch
   Canary
2. Serin
   Grey heron

Heron comes from the French, for the French name is heron cendre. There was a story that if a heron was killed at full moon it could be a cure for rheumatism. It's not unusual for a single tree to hold as many as 10 grey heron nests.

1. Bean Goose
   Canary
2. Chaffinch
   Warbler

During the breeding season, the bean goose can be located from Scandinavia across to the far eastern reaches of Asiatic Russia. The bean goose has similar features as a number of other geese, including the pink-footed goose and greylag goose. They primarily feed on grasses and mosses.

1. Golden-winged Grosbeak
   Black-eared Seedeater
2. Balearic Shearwater
   Greenfinch

The Balearic shearwater is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. The Balearic shearwater is classified as critically endangered, facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

1. Whitethroat
   Greenfinch
2. Antillean Siskin
   Hoary Redpoll

The average whitethroat lives to be two years, but the oldest known whitethroat was seven years old. It was ringed in August 2002, then caught again in August 2009 at the same place. The male will build multiple nests for the female to choose from, and she will line the one that she likes best with fine grasses and hair.

1. Greenfinch
   Hoary Redpoll
2. Goldfinch
   Yemen Linnet

Originally greenfinches were confined to areas of woodland or forest edges and rarely ventured out into farmland or human habitation. Greenfinches eat seeds. Their large bills allow them to eat a wide variety of seeds. They show some preference for seeds with fleshy fruits, such as rose hips.

1. Yemen Linnet
   Desert Finch
2. House Sparrow
   Crossbill

The house sparrow was one of Britain’s most common birds, but numbers have crashed. London lost three-quarters of its sparrows between 1994 and 2000. They are very sociable birds, often found nesting in colonies.

1. Crossbill
   Starling
2. Bullfinch
   Hawfinch

Starlings evolved to feed quickly in flocks. Because of this, they are considered greedy. While starlings appear black at a distance, close up they have glossy green and purple iridescent plumage. The starling population has undergone a long-term population decline throughout Europe.

1. Hawfinch
   Yellow-billed Grosbeak
2. American Plover
   Gold-naped Finch

The American plover is a shorebird of pastures, open ground, and mudflats. It makes one of the longest migratory journeys of any shorebird. It breeds on the high Arctic tundra of Alaska and Canada and spends winters in the grasslands of central and southern South America.

1. Swallow
   Maui Parrotbill
2. Kona Grosbeak
   Palila

Swallows belong to the family Hirundinidae, which also includes martins. There are 84 recognized species in the world. The barn swallow is the world’s most widespread swallow. Swallows were much rarer before people started practicing agriculture and animal husbandry.

1. Chough
   Akohekohe
2. Poo-uli
   Kakawahie

Natural enemies of red-billed choughs are the peregrine falcon, golden eagle, eagle-owl, and raven. Red-billed choughs use high-pitched, ringing calls for communication. They build nests on the sea cliffs or inside abandoned buildings, caves, and mine shafts.

1. Kakawahie
   Magpie
2. Slaty Bunting
   Corn Bunting

Magpie numbers in Britain and Ireland have quadrupled in the last 35 years. A magpie looks much bigger than it is: the tail makes up half the bird’s length. Its average weight is only about half that of a wood pigeon. Long-eared owls often adopt old magpie nests.

1. Barnacle Goose
   Corn Bunting
2. Reed Bunting
   Fox Sparrow

The barnacle goose gets its name from people hundreds of years ago that used to think they were born from the crustaceans called barnacles. Barnacle goose chicks have one of the hardest starts in life of any baby animal in the world. They are born in nests on the top of cliffs to protect them from predators, such as Arctic foxes and polar bears.

1. Olive Sparrow
   Eastern Towhee
2. Chaffinch
   Fox Sparrow

Cecil Rhodes, the founder of Rhodesia, introduced chaffinches to South Africa in 1898. They can still be found around the Cape today. Chaffinches were first introduced into New Zealand in 1862, initially becoming established in the Canterbury area.

1. Prothonotary
   Goldcrest
2. Colima Warbler
   Yellow Cardinal

The goldcrest is not only Britain’s smallest bird, but also the smallest in the western Palearctic. The goldcrest’s world range includes the Himalayas and Japan. They are almost exclusively insectivorous, with spiders forming an important part of the diet.

1. Tepui Redstart
   Tufted Duck
2. Prothonotary
   Mourning Warbler

Tufted ducks, scientifically called Aythya fuligula, are actually tufted. The drake (or male duck) has a more prominent crest than the female. Fuligula may derive from the Latin word fuligo, meaning soot. The drake has glossy black plumage on its head, breast, and back.

1. American Robin
   White-lored Warbler
2. Cinereous Conebill
   Capped Conebill

The American robin is a known carrier of the West Nile virus. The male and female look surprisingly similar, although if you look closely, the female is a bit duller than the male. Robins have a sweet tooth! Fruits, berries, sweet cakes, and even pastry dough are some of their favorites.