The northern bobwhite, found in coveys except during breeding season, is the most widespread and familiar quail in North America. It exhibits the greatest range of geographic variation of any ...

Often taken for granted, the brightly plumaged male summer tanager is one of the more spectacular breeding birds of North America. The uniform bloodred feathers seen against a bright green ...

Favored microhabitats include clearings, edges, residential neighborhoods. Migration: most birds in North America migratory. Major spring movement follows that of the winter wren; major fall ...

This species is one of the most widely distributed, abundant, well-known, and well-named birds in North America. Polytypic. Length 8.7". Usually sits in an obvious place or is found in flocks ...

western wood-pewee tends to be slightly darker, browner, and less greenish than eastern wood-pewee, with complete ... and worn summer birds (and fall birds in North America) are essentially ...

This powerful eagle is North America's largest bird of prey and the national ... geographic location. Alaskan and Canadian eagles typically fly south in the fall, for example, while birds that ...

Pileated woodpeckers are the largest of the common woodpeckers found in most of North America. These crow-sized birds present a memorable sight with their zebra-striped heads and necks ...

Widespread and abundant in much of North America, the introduced European ... dark gray-brown feathering all over. Birds begin a complete molt into adultlike plumage soon after fledging, and ...

The striking rose-breasted grosbeak is a common bird of wooded habitats across much of eastern and midwestern North America. Singing from the canopy of a deciduous forest, even a brightly colored ...

These beautiful birds are North America's most common hawks. They are found all over the continent, in Central America, and in the West Indies. The first of these hawks to be scientifically ...

Multicolored birds were developed over centuries of near domestication. Polytypic (12 ssp.; nominate in North America.). Length 12.5". A medium-size compact pigeon with long wings and a short tail.

Adults molt on the wintering grounds, and worn summer birds (and fall birds in North America) are essentially identical to the western wood pewee in appearance. Juvenile: during fall separated ...