The hoopoe is one of those colourful and eye-catching birds that it is truly accurate to describe as exotic. Certainly with a ...

A majestic accipiter, the American goshawk (previously called the northern goshawk) rules from the forest trees. Learn how to spot one.

Key characters include a broad white stripe on the innermost secondary ... has rusty secondary edges (but innermost 2–3 edged white) and wing bars. Immature brighter, like adult, but wing ...

In the forests, fields, and backyards of North America, the striped ... of flightless birds on remote islands. In these secluded havens, where predators are scarce, the wings that once carried ...

A distinctive, potbellied bird ... with white eye arcs, varies from jet black to gray, with white supercilia and throat, blackish lores and lateral throat stripe. Underparts vary, often in ...