It has gorgeous green leaves and small blossoms that bloom from ... but what makes the sparkleberry such a bird magnet? First, the shiny black color of the berries is visually appealing to birds.

Chickadees Are Small Enough To Get The Tiny Pests The official state bird of Maine and Massachusetts, the black-capped ...

He put the bird headfirst into a black tube that sat on a tiny scale. He called out the weight (35.9 grams, or 1.2 ounces) to volunteer Peggy Sagan, who was writing information down on a chart.

I couldn’t resist asking Cooper about another bird I see every day on my way to work or running errands: the European starling, a small black bird with iridescent colors and a yellow beak.