Welcome to The Plain Dealer's birders' page

On this page you can find useful bird links, and on the one inside, you can use our handy checklist to keep track of your own local life list. The sign-in is required so your list can be kept private.

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Northeast Ohio's 50 most common birds

In scientific order

Turkey vulture Cooper's hawk Red-tailed hawk Mourning dove Eastern screech owl Chimney swift Ruby-throated hummingbird Common flicker Pileated woodpecker Red-bellied woodpecker Red-headed woodpecker Yellow-bellied sapsucker Hairy woodpecker Downy woodpecker Eastern kingbird Great crested flycatcher Eastern phoebe Acadian flycatcher Willow flycatcher Alder flycatcher Least flycatcher Eastern wood pewee Tree swallow Barn swallow Purple martin

Blue jay American crow Black-capped chickadee Tufted titmouse White-breasted nuthatch Red-breasted nuthatch Brown creeper House wren Carolina wren Gray catbird American robin Cedar waxwing European starling Yellow-rumped warbler House sparrow Red-winged blackbird Baltimore oriole Common grackle Northern cardinal House finch American goldfinch Eastern towhee Dark-eyed junco White-throated sparrow Song sparrow

Links for these birds are from the U.S. Geological Service's Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter. Other helpful sites include the Audubon Society's John James Audubon's Birds of America, Cornell University's All About Birds, and Bird Life International's Avibase.
Questions on birds? Contact Jim McCarty at the Plain Dealer.
Problems with the page? Contact Peter Zicari at The Plain Dealer.