The bird is very shy and secretive. Most folks have never seen the yellow-bellied sapsucker working on their trees and have a hard time accepting that a small bird is doing all this damage.

“There’s a bird in the cockpit.” The ticket agent laughed at this. It seemed funny to Perry, too, at that point. He boarded the plane with the other passengers and watched as yellow-vested ...

There are white-throated sparrows at the bird feeder and a few juncos feeding on the ground. A few small insects are flying about. I notice movement in the shrubbery. Some very small bird is ...

The day-old bird, smaller than a pinky finger, had brown fuzz all over its body. When Falk and Taylor walked closer to the nest, the chick began twitching and shaking its head—a behavior ... these ...

We have all heard the phrase he or she "eats like a bird." This usually implies a very small ... tilt their head to look for signs of earthworm activity. Woodpeckers excavate small holes in ...

Robert Smith / Sun Herald As temperatures drop, new birds are flocking to ... It’s dark at the shoulders and head with a very white belly,” she said. • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker: Adults ...

DESCRIPTION: The western snowy plover is a very small bird ... have black markings on the head and breast, while females' patches are dark brown. In nonbreeding plumage, males and females look similar ...

Staff at a UK wildlife hospital were in for a surprise after a mysterious bright-orange bird turned out to be far less exotic ...

The bird — a type of heron known as a bittern — was recorded in Jersey, the largest of the islands, by wildlife photographer John Ovenden. “The very secretive ... its head toward the sky.

Firecrests are very small birds, a mere nine centimetres long and are often confused with their much commoner cousins, goldcrests. Both have the brilliant orange or yellow crown feathers ...

One day in 2014, a bead seller’s wares caught his eye. “I noticed that there was a very small bird foot in one of the beads, which made me very excited,” said Dr. Xing, who works at the ...