White Birds

While entirely white birds are rare, several avian species possess stunning white plumage that helps them stand out.

List of Birds That Appear White

• American Pekin
• American White Ibis
• American White Pelican
• Barbary Dove
• Cattle Egret 
• Elegant Tern 
• European Herring Gull
• Forster’s Tern
• Glaucous Gull
• Great Egret 
• Great White Egret
• Great White Heron
• Gyrfalcon
• Herring Gull
• Ivory Gull 
• Little Blue Heron
• Little Egret
• Masked Booby
• Mississippi Kite
• Mute Swan
• Northern Gannet
• Philippine Cockatoo
• Red-billed Tropicbird
• Reddish Egret
• Red-tailed Tropicbird
• Red-vented Cockatoo
• Ring-billed Gull
• Rock Pigeon
• Rock Ptarmigan 
• Ross’s Goose
• Royal Spoonbill
• Royal Tern
• Sanderling
• Smew
• Snow Bunting
• Snow Goose
• Snowy Egret
• Snowy Owl
• Snowy Plover
• Swallow-tailed Kite
• Trumpeter Swan
• Tundra Swan
• White Cockatoo
• White Hawk
• White Ibis
• White Tern
• White-bellied Sea Eagle
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• White-tailed Kite
• White-tailed Ptarmigan
• Whooping Crane
• Willow Ptarmigan
• Wood Stork

More White Birds

• Black and White Birds
• Birds With White Heads