Ohio birds

This page helps you get started bird watching.

There are over 400 kinds of birds in Ohio, and many of them can be seen from right at home! Here are 40 of the most common backyard birds living in Ohio.

Learn when to put out birdhouses during the nesting season and how to attract birds to your houses.

The American goldfinch is one of the last songbirds to breed each summer. Look for these bright, thistle-loving beauties in your backyard.

Species accounts for all the birds of the world.

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The American kestrel (Falco sparverius), also called the sparrow hawk, is the smallest and most common falcon in North America. It has a roughly 2-1 range in size over subspecies and sex, varying in size from about the weight of a blue jay to a mourning dove. It also ranges to South America and is a well-established species that has evolved into 17 subspecies adapted to different environments and habitats throughout the Americas. It exhibits sexual dimorphism in size (females being…

A beautiful Song Sparrow, Melospiza melodia. A very successful songbird, Song Sparrows can be found in all manner of places throughout their expansive range. For many readers, this will be one of the first birds that one hears upon exiting the abode in the morning. Yet they occur in the wildest of places, and every sort of situation in between. I've got plenty of Song Sparrows around me, and common as they may be, I seldom overlook the shy little songsters. Back on May 15, I only had a few…

If you’re willing to know about feeding winter birds in Ohio, this BirdsAdvice guide will let you know what you’re exactly looking for.

In Northeast Ohio it's possible to spot roughly 350 species of birds out of more than 700 species in North America. Of those, we can expect to see about 20 species at backyard feeding stations from October to April. Your...