The hooded warbler is easy to identify with its olive-yellow and gray plumage and yellow faces with black hoods and throats. This bird breeds in eastern forests in the United States and migrates ...

Now, Geoffrey Hill, an ornithologist at Auburn University who helped identify Alabama ... and how to tell if a bird you’ve seen in the wild is a yellow cardinal or not.

And it makes bird identification tricky this time of year ... The corners of the mouth can be yellow, pink or orange, almost giving an appearance of lips. It’s commonly seen in wrens and ...

which gives birds most of their blacks, browns, and some shades of yellow. Within this group of genetically-altered plumages are individuals with partial albinism, known as leucism. Leucistic ...

At first glance, it looked like a yellow-breasted chat ... “I am very skeptical about the identification of that bird as a chat (Icteria) x oriole (Icterus) hybrid,” Irby Lovette, professor ...

Generally shy and elusive, the yellow-billed cuckoo can be easily overlooked. Its calls are usually loud and often provide the best evidence to the presence of the bird. It favors eating ...

One of the easiest summer birds to identify, it has a distinctive mask as well as a crest and a soft shade of light brown on its breast fading to yellow near the underside of the tail, and the ...

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