Forest Birds

Birds of North America

Lives, Habitats & Pictures of the Forest Birds

An adult male Scarlet Tanager changing
from breeding plumage to non-breeding plumage in the Frontenac Park, near Verona, Ontario, Canada

Types of Forest Birds are those birds that will be seen more often than not, in tree lots and forested areas. When these bird species decides to travel in their Spring or Fall migration, it is usually non-stop, over open expanses, until they can seek the cover of wood lots or larger forests where they are most comfortable with their surroundings.

Once these different types of birds settle in their habitats, some will be found on the forest floors, others will be in the newer growths that are not high, and again others will live in the higher areas of the trees, right up into the canopies of the treetops.

These birds will be a combination of seed eaters and insect eaters. Managing the insect population and aiding the tree by reducing the amount of insect damage being done to them. The seed eating birds, for example, the crossbills, aid the forest by opening the cones and letting seeds fall to the ground, giving them the opportunity to germinate in the soil and grow into young trees.

Click on the bird names listed below to see pictures of Forest Birds of North America
Bananaquit	Brown Creeper	Bushtit	Bullfinches
Chickadees	Chuck-will's-widow	Clark's Nutcracker	Crossbills
Finches	Flycatchers	Gnatcatchers	Grosbeaks
Jays	Juncos	Kinglets	Nuthatches
Ovenbird	Parulas	Pauraque	Pewees
Redstarts	Rosy-Finches	Sapsuckers	Siskin
Solitaire	Spindalis	Tanagers	Thrushes
Titmice	Trogons	Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet	Veery
Vireos	Warblers	Woodpeckers	Wood-Pewees