Featured (in order of appearance)

American Robin. Photo: Kathryn Keith/Great Backyard Bird Count

Piping Plover. Photo: Lorraine Minns/Audubon Photography Awards

Rufous Hummingbird. Photo: Boe Baty/Audubon Photography Award

Mountain Bluebird. Photo: Diane Taylor/Audubon Photography Awards

Great Gray Owl. Photo: Melyssa St. Michael/Audubon Photography Awards

Scarlet Tanager. Photo: DanielBehm/Audubon Photography Awards

Red-breasted Nuthatch. Photo: Tamima Itani/Audubon Photography Awards

Royal Terns. Photo: Melissa James/Audubon Photography Awards

Blackburnian Warbler. Photo: Jamie Harrelson/Audubon Photography Awards

Razorbills. Photo: Melody Lytle/Audubon Photography Awards

Baltimore Oriole. Photo: Randy Streufert/Audubon Photography Awards

Sanderling. Photo: Russell Hershow/Audubon Photography Awards

Long-billed Curlew. Photo: Rick Derevan/Audubon Photography Awards

Purple Finch. Photo: Sandy Cutting/Great Backyard Bird Count

Northern Flicker. Photo: Gary Mueller/Great Backyard Bird Count

Canada Jay. Photo: Alejandra Lewandowski/Audubon Photography Awards

Semipalmated Plover. Photo: Christian Tompkins/Audubon Photography Awards

American Goldfinch. Photo: Lynn Cleveland/Audubon Photography Awards

Cerulean Warbler. Photo: Gary Robinette/Audubon Photography Awards

Yellow Warbler. Photo: Brian Collier/Audubon Photography Awards

Black-and-white Warbler. Photo: Ray Whitt/Audubon Photography Awards

Wood Thrush. Photo: Nate Rathbun/USFWS
Background Collage

American Redstart. Photo: Dan Pancamo/Flickr Creative Commons

American Three-toed Woodpecker. Photo: Daniel Arndt/Flickr Creative Commons

American Woodcock. Photo: Flickr Creative Commons

Black-bellied Plover. Photo: Dmitry Mozzherin/Flickr Creative Commons

Boat-tailed Grackle. Photo: Flickr Creative Commons

Common Loon. Photo: Glenn Bartley/Audubon Photography Awards

Common Poorwill. Photo: Andy Teucher/Flickr Creative Commons

Dunlin. Photo: Flickr Creative Commons

Dusky/Sooty Grouse. Photo: Flickr Creative Commons

Eared Grebe. Photo: Andrew Reding/Flickr Creative Commons

Golden Eagle. Photo: David H Webster/Flickr Creative Commons

Greater Sage-Grouse. Photo: Tatiana Gettelman/Flickr Creative Commons

Horned Grebe. Photo: Ekaterina Papchinskaya/Flickr Creative Commons

Le Conte's Thrasher. Photo: Bob Steele/BIA Minden Pictures/Corbis

Montezuma Quail. Photo: Domini Sherony/Flickr Creative Commons

Red-breasted Merganser. Photo: Flickr Creative Commons

Red-breasted Nuthatch. Photo: Eugene Beckes/Flickr Creative Commons

Red Crossbill. Photo: Elaine R Wilson

Ruffed Grouse. Photo: Daniel Arndt/Flickr Creative Commons

Rusty Blackbird. Photo: Seabrooke Leckie/Flickr Creative Commons

Sage Thrasher. Photo: Flickr Creative Commons

Spotted Sandpiper. Photo: Flickr Creative Commons

Surfbird. Photo: Andrew Reding/Flickr Creative Commons

Trumpeter Swan. Photo: Jeff Kubina/Flickr Creative Commons

Vesper Sparrow. Photo: Flickr Creative Commons

Greater White-fronted Goose. Photo: Nathan Hamm/Flickr Creative Commons

Greater Yellowlegs. Photo: David Alan Harvey/National Geographic Creative

Franklin's Gull. Photo: Flickr Creative Commons

Clay-colored Sparrow. Photo: Flickr Creative Commons

Western Bluebird. Photo: Aaron Maizlish/Flickr Creative Commons

White-throated Swift. Photo: Glenn Bartley

Yellow Rail. Photo: Brian E. Small