Birds That Start With D

8 birds Animals and nature Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 8 birds that start with D, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. They are listed below with what each one is.

D is a short bird list with eight entries. Duck and dove are the easy ones for young children, and the dodo is a famous extinct bird that once lived on Mauritius.

The rest are water birds. The diver and diving duck plunge below the surface, and the dipper walks along streambeds to find food. The darter is a long-necked swimmer, and the dunlin is a small shore bird often seen in flocks along beaches.

Birds starting with D: 8
Best known: duck, dove
Longest name: diving duck

All birds that start with D

#	Name	What it is
1	darter	fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill
2	dipper	small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
3	diver	large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back
4	diving duck	any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food
5	dodo	extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons
6	dove	any of numerous small pigeons
7	duck	small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
8	dunlin	small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean...

Questions people ask

How many birds start with D?

This list has 8 birds starting with D, from well-known ones like duck, dove, dodo to rarer kinds.

What birds start with D?

Well-known examples are duck, dove, dodo.

Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.

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