Columbia + St. Louis · good bet
Local checklist
Birds worth watching for.
Profiles cover BirdQuest species across Columbia and St. Louis. Difficulty is game progression—not a scientific rarity ranking.
Columbia + St. Louis · good bet
Mourning Dove
Soft-colored ground feeder often found beneath busy seed stations.Level 2 · 10 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · good bet
Northern Cardinal
Year-round Missouri favorite that prefers sturdy perches and sunflower seed.Level 3 · 15 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · good bet
Carolina Chickadee
Tiny, curious woodland regular that grabs one seed and carries it to cover.Level 4 · 20 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · good bet
Tufted Titmouse
Bold gray songbird that carries sunflower seeds and peanuts away one at a time.Level 5 · 25 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · good bet
Blue Jay
Large, intelligent visitor that favors peanuts and roomy feeding surfaces.Level 6 · 30 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · good bet
Downy Woodpecker
Small backyard woodpecker readily drawn to suet near trees.Level 7 · 35 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · good bet
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Medium woodland woodpecker with a rolling call and broad feeder appetite.Level 8 · 40 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · good bet
American Goldfinch
Acrobatic finch that gathers at fresh nyjer and sunflower feeders.Level 9 · 45 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · good bet
White-breasted Nuthatch
Tree-trunk specialist that often travels headfirst toward suet and peanuts.Level 10 · 50 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · challenge
Carolina Wren
Loud, warm-brown wren that investigates brush, porches, and sheltered food.Level 11 · 55 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · good bet
Dark-eyed Junco
Winter ground feeder that searches below seed stations in loose flocks.Level 12 · 60 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · challenge
Eastern Bluebird
Missouri's state bird; an open-country insect eater that may learn a mealworm station.Level 13 · 65 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · good bet
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Missouri's regular hummingbird, most abundant from spring through early fall.Level 14 · 70 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · challenge
Baltimore Oriole
Bright spring and summer visitor drawn to oranges, flowers, and tall shade trees.Level 15 · 75 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · challenge
Brown Thrasher
Long-tailed brush bird that scratches through leaves and may visit low food stations.Level 16 · 80 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · challenge
Gray Catbird
Slate-gray thicket bird with a catlike call and a taste for fruit.Level 17 · 85 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · opportunistic
Pileated Woodpecker
Crow-sized forest woodpecker that may visit large suet stations near mature woods.Level 18 · 90 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · challenge
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Migration prize that can pause at sunflower feeders beneath leafy trees.Level 19 · 95 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · opportunistic
Red-headed Woodpecker
Striking open-woodland woodpecker; habitat and standing dead trees matter most.Level 20 · 100 pointsOpen guide →
Columbia + St. Louis · opportunistic
Evening Grosbeak
Rare, irregular winter visitor best treated as a lucky flock encounter.Level 21 · 125 pointsOpen guide →
St. Louis · good bet
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
St. Louis signature sparrow found in neighborhoods and open country around the region.Level 7 · 35 pointsOpen guide →Bird photography credits
Local thumbnails are resized copies from Wikimedia Commons.
- House Finch — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mourning Dove — JeffreyGammon, CC BY 4.0
- Northern Cardinal — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Carolina Chickadee — Dan Pancamo, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Tufted Titmouse — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Blue Jay — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Downy Woodpecker — Cephas, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Red-bellied Woodpecker — Ken Thomas, Public domain
- American Goldfinch — Rodney Campbell, CC BY 2.0
- White-breasted Nuthatch — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Carolina Wren — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dark-eyed Junco — Cephas, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Eastern Bluebird — Sandysphotos2009, CC BY 2.0
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird — jeffreyw, CC BY 2.0
- Baltimore Oriole — TonyCastro, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Brown Thrasher — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Gray Catbird — Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Pileated Woodpecker — Joshlaymon, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak — John Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Red-headed Woodpecker — Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Evening Grosbeak — Cephas, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow — Laitche, Public domain