Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea Last Name: Tern, Arctic
14-17" (36-43 cm). Deeply forked tail. Similar to Common Tern but underparts grayer, bill blood-red, legs shorter, tail longer.... read more
Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis Last Name: Warbler, Arctic
4 3/4" (12 cm). Olive green above, with dark line through eye and light greenish-yellow eyebrow. Whitish throat and belly; olive-gray sides; indistinct single wing bar. Pale legs.... read more
7-8" (18-20 cm). An unstreaked, brown-backed woodpecker, with brown crown and brown ear patch on white face. Underparts spotted and barred with brown. Male distinguished by red nape.... read more
8" (20 cm). Dull olive above, yellowish below. Like Brown-crested Flycatcher (and Great Crested, Myiarchus crinitus, of the East), but smaller and less colorful; back browner, throat and breast grayis... read more
Ashy Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma homochroa Last Name: Storm-Petrel, Ashy
7 1/2" (19 cm). An all-black storm-petrel with shallowly forked tail and somewhat rounded wings. Ashy color of head and neck and light mottling on undersides of wings may be visible at close range. Fl... read more
Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica Last Name: Puffin, Atlantic
12" (30 cm). A short stocky bird. Black above and white below, with white face and red legs; its remarkable triangular bill is brilliant red and yellow. In fall, horny outer covering of bill is shed, ... read more
17-18" (43-45.5 cm). Chicken-like ground bird with strong vertical bars of dark brown and buff-white in a zebralike pattern over the mantle, flanks, and underparts. Tail short, rounded, and dark brown... read more
Audubon's Oriole Icterus graduacauda Last Name: Oriole, Audubon's
9" (23 cm). Robin-sized. Male greenish yellow with black head, wings, and tail. Females slightly duller and smaller. Immatures lack black on head.... read more
11-12" (28-30 cm). A small shearwater, brownish-black above and white below except for dark undertail coverts. Half the size of Greater Shearwater. The rarer Manx Shearwater is blacker, has white unde... read more
Bachman's Sparrow Aimophila aestivalis Last Name: Sparrow, Bachman's
6" (15 cm). A dull-colored nondescript bird, streaked above, plain below, with buff breast.... read more
7 1/2" (19 cm). A slender "peep" with a short straight bill; larger than Least, Semipalmated, and Western sandpipers; about the same size as White-rumped. Wing tips extend beyond end of tail, giving b... read more
Baird's Sparrow Ammodramus bairdii Last Name: Sparrow, Baird's
5-5 1/2" (13-14 cm). A pale streaked sparrow. Whitish below; breast crossed by a band of narrow black streaks; bright ocher crown stripe.... read more
Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Last Name: Eagle, Bald
30-31" (76-79 cm). W. 6-7' 6" (1.8-2.3 m). A large blackish eagle with white head and tail and heavy yellow bill. Young birds lack the white head and tail, and resemble adult Golden Eagles, but are va... read more
7-8 1/2" (18-22 cm). Male has black head, back, wings, and tail; orange breast, rump, and shoulder patch. Female olive-brown, with dull yellow-orange underparts and two dull white wing bars.... read more
4-5" (10-12.5 cm). Small, warbler-like with a thin, decurved bill. Adult has black upperparts, white throat and belly, conspicuous white eyestripe and a white wing patch at the base of primaries; yell... read more
7.5 - 9" (19-23 cm). W. 16 1/2-18" (42-45 cm). Intermediate in many respects between Wilson's and Leach's storm-petrels. Blackish-brown overall with pale wing bars and a clear, curved white band acros... read more
