Bird Coloring Pages


"Finally, accurate bird coloring pages."

We've searched high and low for free bird coloring pages. Some we found were free, but were not very realistic or good for coloring. So we've gathered all the good ones (at least by our standards) all in one place.

We've categorized the coloring pages by bird orders:

Penguin bird coloring page

Waterfowl/Seabirds/Wading Birds
Arctic Tern, Blue-footed Booby, Brown Pelican, Canada Goose, Flamingo, Heron, Nene (Hawaiian Goose), Penguin with chick, Puffin, Stork 

Gallinaceous Birds
Rhode Island Red Chicken, Ringed-neck Pheasant, Ruffed Grouse, Peacock, Sharp-tailed Grouse

Eagle Free Bird Coloring Pages
Birds of Prey
Eagle, Falcon, Gyrfalcon, Great-horned Owl, Osprey, Northern Goshawk, Vulture

Songbirds (Passerine)/Nonpasserine Northern Cardinal Printable Coloring Pages
American Goldfinch, American Robin, Baltimore Oriole, Black-capped Chickadee, Blue Jay, Cactus Wren, Carolina Wren, Dodo, Hermit Thrush, Hummingbird, Lark Bunting, Meadowlark, Northern Cardinal, Northern Mockingbird, Pine Grosbeak, Purple Finch, Purple Martin, Roadrunner, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Steller's Jay, Yellow-headed Blackbird

Free Bird Coloring Book*

Cornell has an excellent bird coloring book that includes 48 species of common feeder birds. It is Bird Coloring Pagesa student workbook that includes questions on each bird coloring page. Most of the bird pictures in the coloring book were drawn by the noted bird artist and ornithologist, Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1872-1927). Fuertes, a native of Ithaca, New York and a Cornell University graduate, is known for his realistic bird art. The other drawings are by William Montagna. 

*Note: If you cannot download the book, you may need Adobe Acrobat Reader set up on your computer. To obtain a free copy, visit the Adobe web site at www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Species included in Cornell's Bird Coloring Book:

Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

Cooper?s Hawk (Accipiter coperii)

Rock Dove (Pigeon) (Columba livia)

Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)

Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus)

Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)

Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)

Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus)

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

Scrub Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) and Stellar?s Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri)

American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis)

Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli)

Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens)

Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)

Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)

White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)

Brown Creeper (Certhia americana)

Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)

Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa)

American Robin (Turdus migratorius)

Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorurm)

European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Pine Warbler (Dendroica pinus)

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)

Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)

American Tree Sparrow (Spizella arborea)

Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)

Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca)

Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)

White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)

White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)

Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)

Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)

Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)

Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater)

Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator)

Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus)

Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) or White-winged Crossbill (Loxia leucoptera)

Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea)

Pine Siskin (Carduelis pinus)

American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)

And for more accurate and detailed bird coloring pages, you may want to take a look at some of these Professional Artist-illustrated Bird Coloring Books.

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