Below is a list of birds that we expect will be eating cicadas during the emergence.
Some online birding resources:
- All About Birds – a comprehensive resource that has images and ID tips
- Merlin Birding App – An app that helps with basic photo ID
- EBird – A resource that shows common species in your geographic region
- Color Pattern: Distinctive rust colored belly with darker grey/brown head and back
- Size: Smaller than a pigeon (robins are a well known species that help us compare sizes of other birds to)
- Behavior: Stands erect and usually forages on the ground
- Color Pattern: Bright red males with black face around the bill, females are pale brown with a red beak
- Size: Slightly larger than sparrow
- Behavior: Stay around the brush and forage on ground
- Color Pattern: Distinctive Blue Back and white belly
- Size: A bit larger than a robin
- Behavior:
- Loud “caw, caw” calls
- Found along forest edges
- Color pattern: Glossy black, iridescent purple-green, sometimes have white spots with yellow beaks
- Size: About the size of a robin
- Behavior: Often in large, noisy flocks and are comfortable around humans
- Color Pattern: White cheeks and brown mottled back. Males have black bib”
- Size: About the size of a large apple
- Behavior: Common in urban settings, loud chirps, hops on ground and fences.
Color Pattern: dark brown body and wings with distinctive white head and tail. Their feet and beak are bright yellow. Juveniles may have a more mottled brown appearance
Size: Very large!
Behavior: Primarily found in forests near large bodies of water. You may see them perching in tall trees or fishing in lakes and rivers
- Color Pattern: deep blue coloration on the back, but can look different depending on the light with a subdued orange breast
- Size: Slightly larger than a sparrow
- Behavior: Perch and then drop to the ground to forage
- Color Pattern: Grey-blue on the back with a black cap and with a white underbelly
- Size: Sparrow size or smaller
- Behavior: Agile birds that go back and forth and sideways and as they forage on vertical surfaces
- Color Pattern: White underbelly, “slate-colored” chest and back
- Size: Sparrow-sized
- Behavior: Primarily ground foraging birds
- Color Pattern: slatey grey coloration with a black cap and rufus red coloration under a tail
- Size: Robin sized
Behavior: fly across open areas, preferring quick, low flights over vegetation
- Color Pattern: Similar to a robin but with a white patch on belly and wings. Females are a lighter brown on their back
- Size: Robin Sized
- Behavior: Tend to forage on leaf litter on forest edges
- Color Pattern:
- Male: glossy black with brown head
- Female: Plain brown bird
- Size: Stocky and small blackbird, smaller than a robin
- Behavior: noisy and often feed on the ground with mixed species
- Color Pattern: Black back with a white belly, distinctive white tipped tail
- Size: About robin sized with an upright posture
- Behavior: Visual hunters that tend to catch prey mid-air. Usually hunt in open fields and grasslands
- Color Pattern: olive green above and streaked below with bold black and orange stripes on the crown
- Color difference between wood thrush: streaks instead of spots on breast
- Size: Sparrow sized or smaller
- Behavior: Song birds that forage mostly on the ground
- Color Pattern: Rust colored on top and black spots on under belly, bold white eyering
- Size: Slightly larger than a sparrow
- Behavior: Hops and forages through leaf litter
- Color Pattern: Bold black and white back and red head
- Size: Larger than a robin
- Behavior: Hitch along tree branches and trunks
- Color Pattern: pale blue/grey coloration with a grey/white underbelly with a black ‘V’ on their foreheads extending above their eyes.
- Size: Sparrow sized or smaller
- Behavior: Energetic forager along the ground, shrubs and trees
- Color Pattern: Brown birds with heavy black streaked underbelly with bright yellow eyes
- Size: About robin sized
- Behavior: Sing in shrubs and treetops, loud and distinctive song
- Color Pattern: dark grey and brown all over
- Size: slightly smaller than robin
- Behavior: Clings on walls and vertical surfaces, rapid flight and constant wingbeats
- Color Pattern: glossy black with red and yellow shoulder coloration, females are brown streaked with a whitish eyebrow
- Size: Robin sized
- Behavior: Gather in flocks and perch to sing distinctive “conk-la-ree!”
- Color Pattern: Grey/Brown with white wing patches and lighter bellies
- Size: Robin Sized
- Behavior: Territorial and loud mimics songs
Brood X Cicadas 