When in flight the red-tailed black-cockatoo’s iconic flash of red under their black tail feathers is most visible. Image credits: Lameh/shutterstock. Birds usually lay one egg, or occasionally two, ...

The most common of the black birds is the red-winged blackbird. They are with us year-round, ... Great-tails have been found in Mid-Missouri, usually flocking together.

Unlike other buteos, red-tails have bright white breasts, often with a central black belly band, a brown back and adults have a uniformly reddish tail, darker above, light below.

Odiorne State Park, Rye, New Hampshire: Brant,Purple Sandpiper, yellow bellied sapsucker, Hermit Thrush, Red-breasted Nuthatch. North Street, Georgetown: Black ...

In the first half of July there are scarcely any birds migrating, heading north for the summer or south for the winter.

They’re the birds you love to hate. Arriving in noisy, voracious flocks, scaring off favored yard birds, these black-colored birds—starlings, cowbirds, grackles, and red-winged blackbirds ...

Dear Bird Folks, For the last few weeks there has been a pair of Red-tailed Hawks calling and circling above my yard. Could they be after the birds on my feeder? –Ellie, Sandwich, MA Probably n… ...

The south-eastern red-tailed black cockatoo is one of five subspecies of the bird across Australia, and the most endangered, with between 1000 and 1500 remaining in the wild.

Where cardinals are a bright red, male scarlet tanagers are a red-hot, almost electric red, accented by their black wings and tail. (Females are a less noticeable yellow-green color.) ...

It also helped if they were permanent and not part of the bird’s breeding plumage to be shed later, which ruled out the whydahs. The following are 10 birds who really do have long tails. #10 ...