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Typically, male birds have more vivid colours than females. As Charles Darwin first explained, the most colourful males are ...
The Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, a small black and yellow bird, was among those officially declared extinct in 2023. John Gerrard Keulemans/WikiMediaCommons.
Yellow-crowned night-herons are most often confused with wading birds like the closely related black-crowned night heron or rail species such as Limpkin, according to the Houston Audubon.
The Scott’s oriole, a black-and-yellow bird inhabiting the Southwest and Mexico, will also receive a new moniker, which will sever ties to the U.S. Civil War general Winfield Scott, who oversaw ...
Mr. Yellow, a cardinal with a rare genetic mutation spotted in central Alabama in 2018 and 2019, sits watch over two baby birds that are possibly his offspring. Jeremy Black Photography ...