Explore birds found in your area, organized by state, province, and region to help you discover what lives around you. This is the largest section of AviBirds, and it answers the question most people actually start from: not "what does this species look like" but "what could I possibly be seeing here".
Every guide is tied to a place. There are state-by-state and province-by-province roundups of the species you are realistically likely to encounter, and alongside them narrower guides that take a single family and work through its local members: the hawks of Kansas, the finches of Ohio, the crows of California, the owls of Nova Scotia. Where a species is a common year-round resident, the guide says so; where it is a rare visitor or passes through only on migration, that is called out too, because knowing which birds are plausible at your latitude in the current month eliminates most wrong answers before you start comparing field marks.
Seasonal guides sit in the same section. Winter birds, summer visitors and migration-period arrivals are treated separately, since the cast of birds at a feeder in Michigan in January has little overlap with the one in July.
Each entry gives field-ready identification notes — the plumage features that matter, the calls and songs, typical behaviour and flight style — together with photographs showing the bird as it actually appears in the field rather than as a museum specimen. Juveniles, females and seasonal plumages are included wherever they differ enough to cause confusion, which in practice is most of the time.
Start from your state or province if you want the broad picture, or from a family guide if you already know roughly what group your bird belongs to.
