Eastern Birds
in Your Backyard and Beyond

Eastern Birds fly through your yard and you wonder if they'd use a Bird Feeder. Or perhaps you think it would be fun to get a Bird House (nest box) to see if they would use it to raise their next family. To help out, we've compiled list of birds in the Eastern U.S. known to use feeders and/or nestboxes. The birds are divided alphabetically into Groups. NOTE: Please visit Western Birds in Your Backyard and Beyond for the bird list for the Western U.S.

Attract birds to your yard with a wide selection of bird feeders, then select your feeders from the best available today.

Putting up a species-specific bird house is the best way to entice your visiting cavity-nesting birds to stay and raise a family.  What a great educational project for your children, or a way for you to enjoy one of Mother Nature's fascinating events. Here is a way for you to determine what type and size Bird House (nest box) is appropriate for most species.  Once you've decided, then choose from a selection of great Bird Houses.

Find a list of birds commonly found in the Eastern U.S. that use feeders and nest boxes below:

BLACKBIRDS AND ORIOLES

Red-winged Blackbird	Great-tailed Grackle	Boat-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle	Brown-headed Cowbird	Orchard Oriole
Hooded Oriole	Spot-breasted Oriole	Altamira Oriole
Audubon's Oriole	Baltimore Oriole	Bullock's Oriole

CHICKADEES, NUTHATCHES, WRENS

Black-capped Chickadee	Carolina Chickadee	Boreal Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse	Bushtit	Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch	Brown-headed Nuthatch	Brown Creeper
Cactus Wren	Carolina Wren	...

CHICKEN-LIKE BIRDS

Northern Bobwhite

Ring-necked Pheasant

...

FINCHES

Pine Grosbeak	Purple Finch	House Finch
Red Crossbill	White-winged Crossbill	Common Redpoll
Hoary Redpoll	Pine Siskin	Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch	Evening Grosbeak	House Sparrow
Eurasian Tree Sparrow	...	...

HUMMINGBIRDS

Buff-bellied Hummingbird

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Black-chinned Hummingbird

JAYS AND CROWS

Gray Jay	Blue Jay	Green Jay
Florida Scrub Jay	American Crow	...

PIGEON-LIKE BIRDS

Rock Dove (Pigeon)	White-winged Dove	Mourning Dove
Inca Dove	Common Brown Dove	...

SPARROWS

Green-tailed Towhee	Eastern Towhee	American Tree Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow	Field Sparrow	Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow	White-throated Sparrow	Harris' Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco	...	...

TANAGERS, GROSBEAKS AND BUNTINGS

Summer Tanager	Northern Cardinal	Pyrrhuloxia
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	Painted Bunting	...

THRUSHES AND MIMICS

Eastern Bluebird	American Robin	Northern Mockingbird
Curved-bill Thrasher	Europeon Starling	...

WARBLERS

Orange-crowned Warbler	Yellow-rumped Warbler	Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler	...	...

WOODPECKERS

Red-headed Woodpecker	Golden-fronted Woodpecker	Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker	Hairy Woodpecker	Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker	...	...

DUCKS

Black-bellied Whistling Duck	Wood Duck	Common Goldeneye
Barrows Goldeneye	Bufflehead	Hooded Merganzer

CHICKADEES, NUTHATCHES, WRENS

Black-capped Chickadee	Carolina Chickadee	Boreal Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse	Red-breasted Nuthatch	White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch	Carolina Wren	Bewick's Wren
House Wren	...	...

FINCHES

House Finch

House Sparrow

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

FLYCATCHERS

Ash-throated Flycatcher

Great-crested Flycatcher

...

OWLS

Barn Owl	Eastern Screech Owl	Barred Owl
Boreal Owl	Northern Saw-whet Owl	...

SWALLOWS

Purple Martin

Tree Swallow

...

THRUSHES AND MIMICS

Eastern Bluebird

European Starling

...

WARBLERS

Prothonotary Warbler

...

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WOODPECKERS

Red-headed Woodpecker	Golden-fronted Woodpecker	Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker	Hairy Woodpecker	Northern Flicker