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