Attract birds to your yard!

Colaptes auratus

This large, brown woodpecker can have a yellow or red underside depending on where they are found.

Passerina ciris

Whoa! Did you see that? It was blue, green, and red? Oh! It was a Painted Bunting, maybe the most colorful bird in North America!

Haemorhous purpureus

Bright purple and rosy finch of medium size. Can be difficult to distinguish from the Cassin’s Finch. Females lack the purple coloration.

Progne subis

This large swallow is bluish-black and quite obvious. Females have more grayish coloration in their underparts.

Sitta canadensis

This blue-backed and red-breasted nuthatch is the cutest little feeder visitor.

Pheucticus ludovicianus

With a blood-colored bib, black head, back, and wings, and white underparts, this large-billed bird really pops. Females pop much less.

Archilochus colubris

This green hummingbird is the only breeding eastern hummingbird. Males have a deep red gorget and females have a white throat.

Selasphorus rufus

This orange and rufous hummingbird is a ball of fire-coloration. Males have a red-orange gorget that females lack.

Piranga olivacea

Scarlet and black are the two major colors of this forest dweller. Unless it’s a female. Then yellow and black are the two major colors.

Cyanocitta stelleri

Blue body, black head, tall crest. These three characteristics are the mainstays of the Steller’s Jay.

Piranga rubra

Red. Red. Red. Yes, the Summer Tanager is all red. Even more red than the cardinal? Perhaps. Except the females.

Tachycineta bicolor

This two-toned swallow has a blue-green back and white underparts.

Baeolophus bicolor

This small-crested bird is gray overall with rufousy buff flanks.

Sialia mexicana

This bluebird has a blue head, back, wings, tail, and belly. Its breast, shoulder, and flanks are rufous.

Megascops kennicottii

This highly cryptic forest owl is gray with black barring and streaking and distinct ‘horns.’