Can You Identify These 25 Common Backyard Birds? (Central and Eastern North America)

23out of 25

My kids guessed 7 correctly

19/25 need to sharpen up my birding skills.

This is exactly what I need for practice. Thanks for the help! 🐦💞

20

I did terrible, but the calls of the Cardinal, Bluejay, and Robin were easy for me, among others. Visually, several were easy, but I recently moved here from Pacific Northwest where many of these don't reside. My backyard in Kentucky is full of different birds, trying to identify one that sort of looks like a phoebe, but a little less stubby and not as dark a head. Been sitting on a clothes line for hours, not making much noise, and occasionally gets excited and flies about 20ft, and right back! Aware of my presence but not intimidated.

Anyone know how to distinguish the two chickadees? I live in Central New Jersey, near Trenton, and they are literally identical and equally common where I like to go birding.

My guy's really asking me to visually identify Black-Capped Chickadee and American Crow






They're virtually identical to the Carolina Chickadee and Fish Crow (and all 4 are common where I live)
Edit: Oops didn't read the message after that

12 over here

I got twenty, that is plenty! What bird mnemonic is that? Haha Love you guys!

Missed 4, mostly because they don't occur in my area. Eg, the towhee. I've seen 2, many years ago and forgot their sound. Also mistook the red bellied? woodpecker for a northern flicker. Etc. It was good. Made my poor old brain work, ie the calls/songs. All the visuals, and most of the songs I got.

I got 18/25, which is way better than what I'd have done a year ago. I'm glad almost all of the ones I missed were calls: song sparrow (the ones you have out there sound a little different than the ones further east I guess!), ruby-crowned kinglet, American robin, house finch, house wren, and American goldfinch. The eastern bluebird is the only one I didn't recognize by sight, but it didn't look very blue in that particular photo and it's still a bit of a new bird to me that I've yet to see much in my home region.

21 out of 25. I don't have Grey Catbirds, Ruby Crowned Kinglets, or House Wrens in my area (that i know of). And my little song sparrow at home has a different little tune, so it threw me off. :)

19/25 , Abby age 9, Australia

Fantastic job there Derek and Ryan you guys did fantastic job on this one , I got 23 out of the 25 within five seconds .

The 2 Birds that threw me off with a sound of the House Finch because this one you have the Eastern call which is different than a western called and the other bird I didn't get was the sound of the Red-Bellied Woodpecker because we do not have them out here in the West .

Good stuff, thanks!

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Westcoast birdwatcher here. I got a lot more than I thought I would. Putting the Mockingbird in at the end was sure sneaky. You couldn't find one mimicking a hawk or a car alarm?

I enjoyed the quiz

I got 8. There are several I don’t have in my yard so I feel pretty good!😊

I got 23 right. Missed ruby crowned kinglet and red bellied woodpecker. I also couldn't tell what kind of crow that was. Could have been fish crow without hearing it.

And I feel good that even though I'm in Carolina chickadee range, I thought it looked more like a black capped chickadee.

23/25 but only because they sound different than what I am used to! Haha loved the challenge

22 out of 25 down here in NC. Them darn Sparrows trip me up, as usual!!!

Lots of my favorites, Blue Jay, Gray Catbird, Titmouse, Cardinal.... Love them.

This past Friday sfternoon we found a early fledge Blue Jay in the street, with a cat stalking it, and a fast approaching front that called for 2-3 inches of rain and very high winds. Based on all these factors, I moved the Baby BJ into a guest room with intentions to release it Sunday morning, if all went well.

To make a long story short, I must say, Blue Jays have always been among my favorite bird species. After this past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning spent with that baby Blue Jay, I now have an incredible love for that species. That little bird brought me so much happiness, joy, amazement, and pride. It sounds silly. Two days and two nights is all I spent with lil Blue. From the first terrified bite of a Blue berry on Friday night to eating 5 whole crickets (halves to a bite) Sunday morning. From lil Blue hiding from, cowering from my touch, shaking with fear on Friday afternoon....To lil Blue following me around, flying up to and sitting on my shoulder, and not wanting to let go of my finger. All this by Sat night and Sunday morning. One highlight of the whole thing was using the Merlin App, lil Blue ignored ALL the Bluejay calls..... Except one, the ninth one down. When I played this series of Tick Tick calls, my lil Blue went berserk Mouth open wide, little wings cooked half up/half open and vibrating. Obviously, mothers signal that she had brought food! Later, sat afternoon, the rain and wind let up and I thought it was getting a little stuffy in lil Blues room. An hour later, an adult Blue Jay was hanging around outside Blue's window. Possibly Blue's Mom.??

Well, Sunday morning came and the weather cleared slightly. No cats were on patrol, so the coast was clear. Sadly, I took lil Blue across the street from my house to the yard closest to where Blue was found. A good omen, a Male Box Turtle was trying to climb the curb to get into the same yard. I placed Lil Blue under a hedgerow that included a Magnolia Tree. It was hard to let Blue go, it was also hard to get lil Blue to let me go. I've never been impacted by an animal so strongly and so quickly. Lil Blue was tiny. The fact that it could fly pretty well is misleading. its little tail feathers were about an inch long and its back and breast were both covered mainly with downy feathers. Lil Blue had no crest, but would raise tiny feathers on its head when excited. My favorite thing was how lil Blue, when holding on to my finger, or any perch, it would relax either one foot at a time, alternating left, right, left, right.....or sometimes it would relax and stretch one toe at a time. one after another. eventually lil Blue would fall asleep

Golly Lee, I love that bird. I hope it's safe!

I only got 4, but I live in Arizona and most are Central and Eastern. I have never seen some of these birds, but the video was fun.

18, would have been all of them if I weren't awful at birding by ear

I'm kind of shocked I got 23 out of 25 considering I live in the Northwest. Of course, we have the Gray Catbird here and I still missed it. The other one was the Northern Mockingbird.

Very nice exercise. Thanks for putting this together. Further proof that I really need work on my sparrow call recognition. And the Kinglet got me too. I am still in awe of all the sounds that the American Robin can muster.

22 points

I only got 13, but I've been living in Asia the past 7 years. Some things are unforgettable, though. The calls of the cardinal and robin are so distinctive I'd know them anywhere! A very nostalgic sound for me.

Got 22/25. Missed on sounds of RCKI, GRCA & HOWR. I have had all of these in my backyard except the Gray Catbird (3.5 years backyard observations, North Alabama)
Great job guys! Really enjoy your varied content. 👏

17 of 25 :-)

What a birdie day

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Sweet birdie

Great little quiz. Got all the photo id's but missed the bluebird song

Got 21

Missed 5 of the calls, nailed the rest. Since I haven't visited the US since 2017 (Alaska) I'm getting a bit rusty on the calls...

14/25. Much better at photo ID then sound ID

17 but a month ago before starting your videos I think I would’ve got about 4

21

18/25 - Need to learn my calls. No idea how I missed Red bellied woodpecker, I am used to hearing the trill but I have heard that call before

Fun quiz to do ! I got 10 but i'm from Europe and we don't have the same birds here 😁

We did pretty well despite living in the PNW 👍

21! It was an amazing video. Even though I'm not a resident of US, it was a great warmup for me.

I think I got 20.... But considering we don't have many of these birds, I felt okay with that. 🙂
Really enjoyed the quiz though 🙂👍

New birder here, got 14 right. Cool to see how much I've learned in such a short time! A few months ago I didn't even know the songs of the blue jay vs cardinal, let alone what a tufted titmouse looks like.

I got 22. Fun to do! I will share it with friends.

Good stuff; great idea; perfectly executed; fan frickin tastic.

I live in Utah but still managed 23 out of 25. I missed Red-bellied Woodpecker and Gray Catbird (embarrassing because I Identified several today by the call).

21/25 thanks for the fun quiz