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The white-browed wagtail is a widespread resident with a black head, black mantle and white supercilium. A typical ground bird that wags its tail up and down. Black winged stilt is a long-legged ...
Valerie Sinex, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited in Yorba Linda, noticed a recent increase in customer sightings of exotic black and white birds with exceptionally long tails and bright red-orange bills.
You’d join your fellow colonizers in naming the bird a Baltimore oriole in honor of English colonizer Lord Baltimore, aka George Calvert (circa 1578-1632), whose orange and black coat of arms ...
One of my most exciting and colorful birds has returned to my backyard, the black-headed grosbeak. Rose-breasted grosbeaks can be seen during migration through Eastern Montana on their way to ...
Maleos, colourful Indonesian birds that look a bit like quirky chickens, are endangered. But an initiative to protect the species has helped boost the number of nesting birds at some sites. The ...
Flocks of 10,000-15,000 American avocets spend every winter in the shallow waters between Bolivar Flats and the North Jetty. They feed on aquatic beetles, larva, flies, midges, vegetation and ...
American white pelicans, with 9-foot, black-tipped wings and long orange beaks, are typically migratory birds. The birds’ numbers in the region dropped in the 19th and 20th centuries.