CHECKLIST MATTER 4 WAYS Have you seen these birds? Did you know that...... To protect birds in your hood: POCKET GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING

• • birds eat bugs like mosquitoes? 1 Keep your indoors! in your are one of the biggest hazards to birds! They neighborhood • American • birds help pollinate plants? kill billions of birds each year. Keep your cat indoors, especially during the spring nesting season. Get your • birds help control pests like rats and mice? • Anna’s Hummingbird cat neutered or spayed! Birds • birds spread seeds and pollinate flowers? • Black-Capped Chickadee 2 Help birds SEE windows • birds bring beauty, joy, and music to our city? Windows are usually invisible to birds! They see the • Scrub- reflection of sky and trees and fly right into them. Create beautiful patterns or paintings on your windows • Cooper’s to make them visible, or stick a decal on the outside! LIGHTS OUT PORTLAND • Dark-Eyed Junco 3 Provide habitat for birds! If possible, plant trees and bushes which give birds food • Downy Woodpecker Did you know that and places to hide and nest. • most migrate at night 4 Turn out the lights! • Northern Flicker Many birds migrate at night and get lost when they using the moon and can’t see the stars. Participate in Lights Out Portland! • Song Sparrow stars to navigate? • Western Tananger Lights left on at night confuse birds, making them lose For more information: their way or crash into things. To help, you can turn off your www.portlandaudubon.org Photographs taken by Scott Carpenter, lights at night, especially during migration periods: Fall www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/ee Jim Cruce, Hayley Crews and Molly Sultany (August 25 - November 15) and Spring (March 15- June 7). AMERICAN CROW black cap BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE black or DARK-EYED JUNCO NORTHERN FLICKER completely black aka “Smarty Pants” aka “Cutie Pie” gray hood aka “Hoodie” necklace aka “Lucky” black white cheek small, thin Crows will eat almost anything: stripe This curious little eats lots of bugs! short The Junco is one of the most common One of the only woodpeckers that feeds from worms, to seeds, to It also hides seeds all around your pink bill birds in . Need another on the ground. You can find it eating human garbage! They are neighborhood, and can remember reason to keep your cat indoors? The on sidewalks and in grass, black neck extremely intelligent problem thousands of hiding spots. It nests and junco makes its nest on the ground, or hear males hammering on metal sleeps in holes in trees. It has many solvers. Crows can use tools and often in grassy fields. orange poles during mating season. Look remember human faces! different songs to communicate with tail for beautiful neon-orange feathers other birds, but people mostly recognize feathers white around your neighborhood. These are it’s “chicka-dee-dee-dee” call! rump good luck!

white eyeliner gray eyebrow CALIFORNIA SCRUB-JAY chisel-like red dot DOWNY WOODPECKER aka “Worm Eater” aka “Eyebrows” bill on back aka “Hammer Head” wide SONG SPARROW gray or black blue back of head Look for this common Look for this noisy and mischevious This little woodpecker doesn’t sing! gray aka “Birdyoncé” head and and tail (males) eyebrow back hopping in the grass hunting for bird making bold hops on the ground It makes a hammering sound by long tail Male birds sing to attract a mate. rust worms and bugs to eat. In the or burying acorns to eat during the ramming it’s head against a tree or They learn from older birds, and red winter, they gather in large flocks white winter. They eat mostly in metal post. It mostly eats bugs it finds belly belly stiff tail for central when they are young, their songs in trees to eat and rest. Learn to the summer. balancing on trees. Look for it crawling up and brown spot long legs can be awful! A female chooses the recognize it’s lovely song! down tree trunks searching for food! on chest male with the most complex song.

long beak ANNA’S HUMMINGBIRD dark gray cap COOPER’S HAWK thick beak for HOUSE FINCH WESTERN TANANGER thick beak cracking seeds male has red for sipping aka “Jellybean” aka “Bird Eater” aka “Big Beak” or orange black wings aka “Night Flyer” nectar brown red or This hummingbird is often heard This smallish hawk is a fast flyer! head with yellow This gorgeous bird spends the pink streaked The house finch has a large beak before it is seen. It makes loud It eats other birds almost exclusively. back and and white winter in and Central neck red & males for cracking seeds. They are almost lines feathers green buzzes and squeaks. It stays in white body male has You might see it perched by your bird have red tail entirely vegetarian! Males have America and migrates each year to or gray Portland all year long, thanks to red head feeder, or hunting pigeons downtown. heads to nest! Look for it in large body cheerful red heads, and become redder hummingbird feeders. It makes its long Another sign that a Cooper’s Hawk is depending on the food they eat. flocks in trees, picking bugs off of nest out of lichen and spider webs, striped tail nearby: a pile of feathers (and maybe leaves and branches. and lays the size of jellybeans! bones) on the ground.