Identifying

Backyard-Birds

From their songs, to their colors, identifying Massachusetts’s backyard-birds can foster excitement, wonder, and familiarity; recognizing the songs of local-birds can be nostalgic; sounds of childhood.

Listed below are Boston’s most common backyard-birds; have you seen, or heard some of them?

Shh…Listen carefully!

Black-Capped Chickadee

Blue-Jay

Male

Female

Northern Cardinal

Carolina Wren

Mourning Dove

American Goldfinch

American Robin

Common Grackle

Grey Catbird

Downy Woodpecker

White-Breasted Nuthatch

Tufted Titmouse

Male

Female

Red-Winged Blackbird

Dark-Eye Junco

House Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Northern Mockingbird

European Starling