Black and White Birds

Thanks to their contrasting colors, black and white birds are a sight to behold. This coloration can serve as camouflage against predators while helping the birds attract mates.

List of Birds That Are Black and White

• Acorn Woodpecker
• Adélie Penguin
• African Penguin
• American Avocet
• American Black Duck
• American Coot
• American Oystercatcher
• American Three-toed Woodpecker
• Atlantic Puffin
• Australian Little Penguin
• Australian Magpie
• Barn Swallow
• Barnacle Goose
• Barrow’s Goldeneye
• Black Guillemot
• Black Noddy
• Black Phoebe
• Black Skimmer
• Black-and-white Hawk-eagle
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Black-billed Cuckoo
• Black-billed Magpie
• Black-capped Chickadee
• Black-capped Vireo
• Black-crowned Night-heron
• Black-headed Gull
• Black-headed Ibis
• Black-necked Stilt
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Black-throated Gray Warbler
• Black-white Warbler
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• Bobolink
• Bridled Tern
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Bufflehead
• Bushtit
• Carolina Chickadee
• Chinstrap Penguin
• Clark’s Grebe
• Common Eider
• Common Goldeneye
• Common Loon
• Common Merganser
• Common Starling
• Crested Caracara
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Downy Woodpecker
• Eastern Kingbird
• Eastern Meadowlark
• Eastern Towhee
• Eastern Wood Pewee
• Emperor Penguin
• Erect-crested Penguin
• Eurasian Magpie
• Fiordland Penguin
• Galápagos Penguin
• Gentoo Penguin
• Gila Woodpecker
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Grey Plover
• Gyrfalcon
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Heermann’s Gull
• Horned Puffin
• Humboldt Penguin
• Indian Paradise Flycatcher
• King Eider
• King Penguin
• Ladder-backed Woodpecker
• Lark Bunting
• Laughing Gull
• Least Auklet
• Lesser Black-backed Gull
• Lesser Scaup
• Little Auk
• Little Penguin
• Loggerhead Shrike
• Long-tailed Duck
• Long-tailed Jaeger
• Macaroni Penguin
• Magellanic Penguin
• Magpie-lark
• Manx Shearwater
• Masked Booby
• Morelet’s Seedeater
• Nazca Booby
• Northern Flicker
• Northern Mockingbird
• Northern Rockhopper Penguin
• Northern Shrike
• Nuttall’s Woodpecker
• Oriental Magpie Robin
• Osprey
• Parakeet Auklet
• Pied Avocet
• Pied Bushchat
• Pigeon Guillemot
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Pin-tailed Whydah
• Pomarine Jaeger
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Red-cockaded Woodpecker
• Red-headed Woodpecker
• Red-naped Sapsucker
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Ross’s Goose
• Royal Penguin
• Royal Tern
• Sabine’s Gull
• Sandwich Tern
• Slaty-backed Gull
• Snares Penguin
• Snow Bunting
• Snow Goose
• Sooty Tern
• Southern Rockhopper Penguin
• Spotted Towhee
• Spruce Grouse
• Steller’s Sea-eagle
• Surf Scoter
• Swallow-tailed Kite
• Thick-billed Murre
• Tree Swallow
• Tufted Duck
• Tufted Titmouse
• Warbling Vireo
• Western Grebe
• Western Gull
• White Hawk
• White Monjita
• White Pelican
• White Wagtail
• White-breasted Nuthutch
• White-browed Wagtail
• White-headed Woodpecker
• White-tailed Kite
• Willow Flycatcher
• Wood Stork
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Yellow-billed Loon
• Yellow-billed Magpie
• Yellow-Eyed Penguin
• Yellow-footed Gull
• Yellow-rumped Warbler