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17 Birds That Start With Y (with Pictures)

Learn about birds that start with all 26 letters of the alphabet!

There are so many birds of all colors, sizes and types found throughout the world. We chose just a small sampling of 17 birds for our list of birds that start with Y. Y is a less used letter of the alphabet when it comes to bird names, and you’ll see in our list that many of these birds are either named after the color yellow, or for a region of the world they are from. 

Let’s have a look!

17 Birds that start with Y

Below is a list of 17 bird species whose name starts with Y. Let’s take a look at these tantalizing, terrific and tremendous birds!