Gray Birds

Gray birds may appear dull but are no less appealing. Their color comes from both the presence of melanin in their plumage and light scattering on the protein particles in the feathers.

List of Birds That Appear Gray

• Alder Flycatcher
• American Dipper
• Arctic Warbler
• Bahama Mockingbird
• Bell’s Vireo
• Black Phoebe
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Black-capped Chickadee
• Black-capped Gnatcatcher
• Black-crested Titmouse
• Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
• Black-throated Gray Warbler
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• Bohemian Waxwing
• Boreal Chickadee
• Bridled Titmouse
• Brown-backed Solitaire
• Brown-headed Nuthatch
• Bushtit
• California Gnatcatcher
• Canada Goose 
• Canada Jay
• Carolina Chickadee
• Cassiar Dark-eyed Junco
• Chimney Swift
• Clark’s Nutcracker
• Common Cuckoo
• Crissal Thrasher
• Cuban Pewee
• Cuban Solitaire
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Eastern Kingbird
• Eastern Phoebe 
• Eastern Wood-pewee
• Eurasian Collared Dove
• Gray Catbird 
• Gray Flycatcher
• Gray Hawk
• Gray Kingbird
• Gray Partridge
• Gray Silky-flycatcher
• Gray Vireo
• Gray Wagtail
• Gray-cheeked Thrush
• Gray-headed Chickadee
• Gray-headed Dark-eyed Junco
• Great Gray Owl
• Greater Antillean Bullfinch
• Greater Pewee
• House Wren
• Juniper Titmouse
• Least Flycatcher
• LeConte’s Thrasher
• Lesser Whitethroat
• Loggerhead Shrike
• Lucy’s Warbler
• McCown’s Longspur
• Mexican Chickadee
• Mistle Thrush
• Mountain Chickadee
• Mourning Dove 
• Northern Beardless-tyrannulet
• Northern Mockingbird
• Northern Parula
• Northern Shrike
• Northern Wheatear
• Nutting’s Flycatcher
• Oak Titmouse
• Oregon Dark-eyed Junco
• Pine Flycatcher
• Plumbeous Vireo
• Pygmy Nuthatch
• Red-backed Dark-eyed Junco
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Rock Pigeon 
• Sandhill Crane
• Savannah Sparrow
• Say’s Phoebe
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco
• Snowy Plover
• Spotted Flycatcher
• Townsend’s Solitaire
• Tropical Mockingbird
• Tufted Titmouse 
• Vaux’s Swift
• Warbling Vireo
• Western Wood-pewee
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• White-winged Dark-eyed Junco
• White-winged Dove
• Willow Flycatcher
• Wrentit
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Yellow-eyed Junco
• Yucatan Vireo