Complete field guide to every bird species recorded in Georgia. Browse by name, filter by taxonomic family or order, and tap any species for photos, range maps, songs, and identification tips.
All sighting data is sourced from eBird, the world's largest citizen science database for birds. Use this guide to discover what birds live in Georgia, learn their calls, and plan birding trips to the best hotspots in the region.
Georgia's more than 420 species divide neatly between two worlds: a barrier-island coast of shorebird flats, Wood Stork rookeries, and Painted Buntings, and an interior that runs from the Okefenokee's cypress swamps to Appalachian ridges in the north.
The state also owns one of America's great urban migration spots: Kennesaw Mountain outside Atlanta, where spring cold fronts drop waves of warblers and tanagers onto a single wooded summit road. Time it right and you can bird a fallout before your morning meeting.
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Where to bird in Georgia
Kennesaw Mountain
Atlanta's warbler mountain: on an April cold front the summit road drips with migrants — 25-warbler mornings, tanagers and grosbeaks at eye level, and Georgia's best chance at a Cerulean in spring.
Jekyll Island
The most birder-friendly of the Golden Isles: shorebird flocks and Reddish Egrets on the south-end flats, fall passerines in the oaks, and Painted Buntings at the campground feeders.
Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge
The coast's signature Wood Stork rookery — hundreds of nests over the alligator ponds in late spring — plus Painted Buntings, Roseate Spoonbills, and marsh sparrows in winter.
Altamaha Wildlife Management Area
The delta's old rice fields near Darien: winter rails and sparrows, duck-filled impoundments, Swallow-tailed Kites over the river swamp in summer, and waders year-round.
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
Blackwater wilderness by boat: Sandhill Cranes bugling over the prairies, Prothonotary Warblers in the cypress, Red-cockaded Woodpeckers in the surrounding pines, and Barred Owls everywhere.
Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge
Middle Georgia's loblolly hills, managed for a thriving Red-cockaded Woodpecker population — visit a cluster at dawn, then work the fields for Bachman's Sparrows and Blue Grosbeaks.
E.L. Huie Land Application Facility
Clayton County's famous treatment ponds south of Atlanta: inland shorebirds in numbers, dabbling ducks all winter, and a decades-long record of turning up phalaropes and other inland rarities.
Tybee Island & Fort Pulaski
Savannah's beach birding: Piping Plovers and Red Knots on the flats, Nelson's and Seaside Sparrows in the spartina, and winter seawatching for scoters and gannets off the north beach.
Brasstown Bald
Georgia's rooftop: one of the few places in the state with breeding Common Ravens, plus mountain specialties like Blackburnian and Canada Warblers at the southern edge of their Appalachian range.
Georgia birding by season
Spring (March–May) — Fallout mornings at Kennesaw
April cold fronts stack migrants on Kennesaw Mountain and the coastal hammocks, Swallow-tailed Kites return to the river swamps, and Wood Stork rookeries fill through May.
Summer (June–August) — Storks, buntings, and kites
Painted Buntings sing from the island scrub, Wood Storks fledge at Harris Neck, and Mississippi and Swallow-tailed Kites patrol the bottomlands — start at dawn and take the swamp by boat.
Fall (September–November) — Coastal passerines and shorebird flats
The barrier islands catch southbound warblers and buntings, shorebird numbers peak on the flats, and inland ponds like E.L. Huie host phalaropes and other surprises.
Winter (December–February) — Sparrow country
The coast is thick with wintering sparrows — Nelson's, Saltmarsh, Seaside, and Le Conte's in the right grass — while ducks pack the Altamaha impoundments and Sandhill Cranes trumpet over the Okefenokee.
All 477 bird species recorded in Georgia
Every species on this list has been recorded in Georgia on eBird. Tap any bird for photos, range maps, songs, and identification tips.