{"id":109,"date":"2021-10-16T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatbirdsareinmybackyard.com\/red-orange-yellow-birds-of-massachusetts\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T05:54:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T05:54:38","slug":"red-orange-yellow-birds-of-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatbirdsareinmybackyard.com\/red-orange-yellow-birds-of-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Red, Orange, & Yellow Birds of Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you see a brightly-colored red bird, orange bird, or yellow bird in Massachusetts and wonder what is was?<\/p>\n

This page is for you!<\/p>\n

This article shows you photos and identification of some of the most common birds in Massachusetts based on color.<\/b><\/p>\n

The list of birds found in Massachusetts includes over 510 species. So, I can’t show you all of them. I’m going to assume that you saw a common bird of this color, but you certainly could have seen something less common, or even rare!<\/p>\n

Shape (including the shape of the bill) and size are often more helpful in starting to identify a bird than the color. In fact, most birds in North American can be easily identified with a black-and-white photo!<\/p>\n

Many birds are multi-colored, so that it may be hard to pick out a dominant color. Males and females may be colored quite differently. And some color patterns are similar among otherwise dissimilar species.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I’m going to try to pick out some of the birds that you are most likely to see in backyards or towns. And I’ll show a few others that I get asked about a lot.<\/p>\n

The birds with a noticeable amount of red on them in Massachusetts covered in this article are:<\/b><\/p>\n