Mountain Bird Guide

Click on the species below for bird photographs, songs, identification tips, distribution maps, and life history information at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center's Bird ID InfoCenter. To hear what these birds sound like, visit the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds Animal Sound & Video Catalog.

The list is organized in taxonomic order and features the most frequently captured breeding birds at a high-elevation bird banding station on Mount Mansfield in Vermont.

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
BlueJay*
Black-capped Chickadee*
Red-brested Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet*
Bicknell's Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush*
American Robin
Nashville Warble
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Purple Finch

*Denotes a sporadic breeder in montane forest.