Birds with black plumage are pretty common and are seen worldwide. These birds include common species, like crows, blackbirds, magpies, ravens, and starlings, that quickly adapt to human presence and have managed to co-exist alongside humanity for years.
List of Birds That Are Black
- African Sacred Ibis
- Altamira Oriole
- American Coot
- American Crow
- American Redstart
- Antillean Palm Swift
- Apostlebird
- Audubon’s Oriole
- Australian Magpie
- Australian Raven
- Baltimore Oriole
- Black Butcherbird
- Black Crake
- Black Currawong
- Black Eagle
- Black Harrier
- Black Heron
- Black Oystercatcher
- Black Phoebe
- Black Skimmer
- Black Stork
- Black Swift
- Black Turnstone
- Black Vulture
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-backed Butcherbird
- Black-billed Magpie
- Black-faced Cuckooshrike
- Black-headed Oriole
- Black-necked Araçari
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Black-spotted Bare-eye
- Black-throated Brilliant
- Boat-tailed Grackle
- Bobolink
- Brandt’s Cormorant
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Bronzed Cowbird
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Bullock’s Oriole
- Cape Crow
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee
- Chihuahuan Raven
- Common Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- Common Raven
- Common Reed Bunting
- Common Swift
- Crested Myna
- Cuban Blackbird
- Cuban Bullfinch
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Eurasian Jackdaw
- European Starling
- Fish Crow
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- Great Cormorant
- Greater Antillean Grackle
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Grey Plover
- Groove-billed Ani
- Hill Myna
- Hooded Butcherbird
- Hooded Crow
- Hooded Oriole
- Indian Blackbird
- Lark Bunting
- Loggerhead Kingbird
- Magpie-lark
- Masked Tityra
- Morelet’s Seedeater
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Northwestern Crow
- Orchard Oriole
- Painted Redstart
- Pelagic Cormorant
- Phainopepla
- Pied Butcherbird
- Pied Currawong
- Pied Wagtail
- Red-faced Cormorant
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Rook
- Rusty Blackbird
- Scott’s Oriole
- Shiny Cowbird
- Smooth-billed Ani
- Spot-breasted Oriole
- Stresemann’s Bristlefront
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Tagula Butcherbird
- Tawny-shouldered Blackbird
- Tricolored Blackbird
- Turkey Vulture
- Western Magpie
- Western Meadowlark
- White Wagtail
- White-throated Swift
- White-winged Chough
- Yellow-billed Magpie
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
FAQs
1. What is the rarest black-colored bird? Stresemann’s Bristlefront is one of the rarest birds out there, with only a single specimen recorded as alive right now.
2. What are the most commonly seen black birds? Some common black birds are the American Crow, the Common Raven, and the Red-winged Blackbird.
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