Foraging birds are commonly ... contrasts with a brown head. The eyes are dark; the bill and legs are black. Adult female: dull brownish throughout, with darker wings and tail.

Nature, red in wheel and fender. Birds in Nebraska have evolved shorter wings, which may help them avoid dying on roads by taking off quickly and darting away from cars. Eighty million US birds ...

Look for the conical, seed-cracking bill. If the drab brown birds have a touch of yellow on the wings, they could be pine siskins, an uncommon visitor from Canada. Other brown visitors to the ...

The birds may also use their wings to signal to their partner that they should enter the nest first. Rapeepong Puttakumwong via Getty Images When a mated pair of small birds called Japanese tits ...

FAIRFIELD -- A wildlife crisis is playing out in the Bay Area and along the California coast. Thousands of brown pelicans are starving to death and scientists don't seem to know why. Now, one ...