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Learn what a yellow-headed blackbird looks like and where to find this bird. Also discover facts about their sounds, nests, diet and more.
What’s that redder-than-red bird? Scarlet tanagers are most likely to be seen in the north central part of Minnesota.
Clear Lake currently has a catch and release, slot fish limit that protects all walleyes measuring between 17 and 22 inches in length.
In central Mexico, where monarch butterflies and black-headed grosbeaks both spend the winter, the grosbeaks are one of the butterflies' few predators.
The rounded wings have reddish primaries. The long tail is graduated with brown central rectrices tipped in black; the remainder are black and broadly tipped with white. It has a yellow orbital ring.
Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally, and they combine yellow, black, orange, blue and red in several diverse patterns that invariably catch the eye.
Red-shafted or yellow-shafted refers to the color of the undersides of wing and tail feathers. The two forms hybridize extensively in the area between their two ranges.
The Spot-breasted Oriole is a tropical bird with an orange head, black face mask, and throat. Its body is orange-yellow, and it features black wings with white markings and yellow shoulder patches.
Note the white wing bar and patches on black wing, and rose-red wing linings. Large, pinkish bill. Adult female: mainly brown above with streaks, paler below with extensive dark streaking.
Scientific detective work reveals that yellow woodpeckers with unusual red wing feathers are not the result of genes borrowed from their red-pigmented cousins, but instead, they are the product of ...