Coloring Pages of Backyard Birds

American Robin
American Goldfinch
Northern Cardinal
Blue Jay
Carolina Wren

Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Baltimore Oriole
Nuthatches
Black-capped Chickadee
Downy Woodpecker

More Printable Bird Coloring Pages (Jumps to Resource List at bottom of page.)

The American Robin is probably more recognizable than any other common backyard bird in North America, with its warm orange breast, and brown back and head. Males and females look similar, but the males have a darker head.

Click on the drawings to go directly to the American Robin coloring pages. Refer to the photo to decide how to color your American Robins.



Robins often migrate south during the winter, but a few hardy robins may stay put further north, as long as they can find food. To learn more about American Robin migration, read Robin in Summer, Robin in Winter.



Photo of American Robin on Wikipedia, CC 3.0

Simple drawing of robin from Bird Themed Coloring Pages

Robin and flowers drawing from Friends Across America Free Coloring Pages.

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The American Goldfinch is a small songbird with a brilliant yellow and black coloration. The photo shown here is of a male. The female American goldfinch is a more subdued greenish-yellow color, with no black cap.

Click on the drawings to go directly to the American Goldfinch coloring pages. Refer to the photo to decide how to color your American Goldfinch. (Credits listed below.)



We see goldfinches all year round at our thistle feeder. The males have their bright yellow plumage during the spring, summer, and early fall, and molt to a more subdued color like the females during the winter.



Photo by Mdf on Wikimedia Commons

Simple drawing of goldfinch from Bird Themed Coloring Pages

Goldfinch and flowers drawing from Friends Across America Free Coloring Pages.

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The male Northern Cardinal is a striking bird in summer and in winter, with its bright red color, a crest on the head, and a black bib under its red beak. The female cardinal is more brownish, but still has the pinkish-red beak, and the crest on the head. Cardinals are common in most of the Eastern United States.

Click on the drawings to go directly to the Northern Cardinal coloring pages. Refer to the photo to decide how to color your Northern Cardinals. (Credits listed below.)



We see cardinals all year in our backyard. They love to eat sunflower seeds at our bird feeder during the summer and the winter.



Wikimedia photo of Northern Cardinal by texaslorarend

Simple drawing of cardinal from Bird Themed Coloring Pages

Cardinal with plants from Friends Across America Free Coloring Pages.

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Blue jays are large songbirds with bold blue, white, and black colorations and head crest. They're bold in behavior too. When they come to our bird feeder they often scare off the smaller birds, and sometimes the squirrels as well.

Click on the drawings to go directly to the Blue Jay coloring pages. Refer to the photo to decide how to color your Blue Jays. (Credits listed below.)



The blue jays in our yard are cheeky and bold. They're big enough to scare off the smaller birds, but not quite bold enough to stay at our bird feeders when I want to go out and photograph them.


Photo of Blue Jay, above, by Marumari, CC 3.0

Detailed drawing of Blue Jay, above left, from Printable Colouring Pages / Blue Jays.

Blue Jay with leaves, left, from The Coloring Barn.

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The Carolina Wren is a perky little songbird with a flipped up tail, that's relatively new to our area in SE Michigan. It's more prominent further south (it's the South Carolina state bird), but it expands northward if the winters are milder. We're at the northern-most part of its range.

Click on the drawings to go directly to the Carolina Wren coloring pages. Refer to the photo to decide how to color your Carolina Wrens. (Credits listed below.)





Simple drawing of Carolina Wren from Bird Themed Coloring Pages.

Photo of Carolina wren by Sean Cuill under Creative Commons license

Drawing of carolina wren with flowers from Friends Across America Free Coloring Pages.


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Ruby Throated Hummingbird
These jewel-like birds have an iridescent green back and crown, with gray-white bellies. The male has the brilliant ruby throat, although it looks dark in poor light. We're treated to the sight of Ruby-throated hummingbirds at our nectar feeder during the summer and early fall. We often hear them buzzing by our head on their way to the feeder.



Drawing of ruby throated humming bird with flower from ColoringPagesSite.com
Image of Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Feeding from Flower from Amazon.com poster.

Baltimore Oriole
Baltimore Orioles are striking with their bright orange body and black head and wings. Females look similar to males, except they usually have a browner head, and are a lighter orange. You can encourage them to come to your yard by putting out orange slices and grape jelly.



Drawing of Baltimore Oriole on SuperColoring.com.
Photo by Sean Cuill under Creative Commons license

White-Breasted Nuthatch
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
In our area we see more white-breasted nuthatches than red-breasted nuthatches. The white-breasted nuthatch is common year-round in our area, and we often see them at our bird feeders. The red-breasted nuthatch lives further north, but we do see a few when they come south during the winter. Nuthatches are often seen creeping head down on our tree trunks (see photo below), whereas other birds usually stay upright.



The drawings above show two white-breasted nuthatches on top, and two red-breasted nuthatches below. Red-breasted nuthatches have stripes along their eyes. White-breasted nuthatches do have some reddish color on the lower part of their bellies.



Line drawing and colored-in drawing of white-breasted and red-breasted nuthatches from The Bird Coloring Book.

Photo of white-breasted nuthatch by qmnonic under Creative Commons 2.0 license

Black Capped Chickadee
This cute tiny songbird has a distinctive "Chick-a-dee-dee-dee" call when it's agitated or alarmed, and a sweet "fee bee" song in the springtime. The chickadee is very curious, and will often come close to people to investigate.



Drawing of Black capped chickadee from Bird Themed Coloring Pages.
Photo from Wikimedia Commons

Downy Woodpecker
The Downy Woodpecker is the smallest and most common woodpecker in North America. The male and female look alike except that the male has a small patch of brilliant red on the back of its head. They enjoy eating suet that we put out at our birdfeeder.



Downy woodpecker drawing from The Great Backyard Bird Count Coloring Page.
Photo by Jarek Tuszynski under Creative Commons 3.0 license.

Eight Common Winter Backyard Birds
Watching our backyard birds brings us great joy, especially during the winter months.

TheColor.com has a simple coloring program online that you can use to color bird images, including some of the familiar backyard birds that are featured on this page.

After you register (for free) at TheColor.com, you can save your colored images, email them, or print them out. You can also erase them and start over.

The image at right is a simplified drawing of a Blue Jay that I colored online.

More common birds from eastern North America that you can color online at TheColor.com are:

• Northern Cardinal
• Canada Warbler
• American Robin
• Chipping Sparrow