16 birds ending with the letter E — each with origin, classification, and notes.
This page lists birds that end with E. 16 birds are detailed below. Each entry below is a doorway into a full profile — not just a name on a list.
A small, fearless North American songbird with distinctive black cap and bib — beloved feeder birds known for sophisticated alarm calls that encode information about predator size and danger level.
A tall, long-legged wading bird famous for elaborate courtship dances, lifelong pair bonds, and distinctive trumpeting calls — 15 species worldwide, with several critically endangered and others recovered through dedicated conservation.
A small to medium-sized bird of the pigeon family — peace symbol across cultures, the white morph used in religious imagery, and the common name shared with the genus including the rock pigeon of every city worldwide.
A large North American sea eagle and the national bird of the United States, recovered from near-extinction to abundance over the past five decades.
A large, handsome thrush that arrives in Britain from Scandinavia each autumn in clattering flocks to feast on hawthorn berries and windfall apples — with its distinctive chestnut back, grey rump, and spotted orange breast, it is one of Britain's most striking winter visitors.
A large migratory waterfowl with a black neck and white chinstrap, abundant across North America and increasingly resident in suburban parks where milder winters and grass lawns allow year-round survival.
A bold, predatory songbird that behaves like a miniature raptor — the great grey shrike is pale grey, black and white, perching prominently on the tops of bushes and lone trees, scanning for prey; famous for impaling prey on thorns to create a larder, it is a scarce winter visitor to Britain, with individual birds often returning to the same heathland site for multiple winters.
A family of plump ground-dwelling birds adapted to cold climates — including iconic species like ruffed grouse, sage grouse, and ptarmigan, with elaborate dramatic mating displays in many species.
A cinnamon-orange bird with a dramatic black-tipped crown that fans open into a bold crest — found across Africa, Europe, and Asia, the national bird of Israel, and known in many cultures as a messenger between the worlds.
A long-tailed black-and-white corvid with iridescent blue-green wing flashes — Eurasian magpies are among the most-studied intelligent birds, while Australian magpies are renowned for spring swooping attacks on humans.
A small brown European migratory songbird famous for its powerful, varied, and beautifully complex song — featured in countless poems and songs across European literature.
A vivid orange-and-black North American songbird with elaborate woven hanging nests — closely related to blackbirds, with multiple species across the Americas including the iconic Baltimore oriole that gave the city's baseball team its name.
A plump, ground-dwelling game bird of European farmland and hedgerows — the "pear tree" bird of the twelve days of Christmas, now in serious decline across much of its range due to agricultural intensification.
Britain's most spectacular conservation success story — a large, elegant, fork-tailed raptor that was reduced to a tiny remnant population of a few dozen birds in Wales by the 1930s and has since been reintroduced across England and Scotland, now numbering thousands; the russet-red body, pale head, and deeply forked tail make it unmistakable in flight.
A cryptically patterned wader of wet grassland and bogs — famous for its evasive zigzagging escape flight, its ethereal "drumming" display sound made by tail feathers, and for being the origin of the word "sniper."
A widespread New World scavenger with a featherless red head and an extraordinary sense of smell — the only vulture that locates food primarily by odor.
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