Choose the feature you are most sure of. Clicking a choice takes you to a series of bird pages - browse them until the bird in question pops up. For sheer pleasure browsing, start anywhere and click around our carousel of winter bird pages. A bird viewed at a distance or in poor light will seem browner than it really is. At sunrise or sunset, the white parts of birds can appear orange, yellow or even red.
Birds backlit against the sky or sun look blacker than normal.
And we all interpret colours a bit differently. So some birds are listed in several colour categories to help you. Beak shape hooked long and stout medium long and thin short and stout short and thin duck-billed 3.