See pictures of a blue=gray gnatcatcher. Plus, find out where these small songbirds live, what they eat, and how they build ...

Scientists have uncovered the fossil of a bird that lived 120 million years ago, and it definitely had flair, including unusually long tail ... to a modern blue jay. However, its tail reached ...

Also called the formosan blue magpie or the “long-tailed mountain lady”, this ... head and a lighter belly and a yellow or white beak. These birds mainly eat fruits, seeds and small insects.

While they don’t carry all the colors of old glory, here’s a selection of Pennsylvania birds that are notably red and white and blue ... by jet-black wings and tail, rivals that of the ...

White-crowns ... with a long tail. They are easy to identify with the crisp black-and-white crown stripes of the adults and their pink or yellow bill. First winter (immature) birds sport buff ...

The unique combination of a short tail fan and two long feathers, known as a pintail, is seen in some modern birds, such as sunbirds ... In effect, the toothed, blue-jay-size Y.

The “chicken hawk” of colonial America, this medium-sized accipiter is a common sight at home bird ... white. Juvenile: brown above, with rufous edges and white spots on upperwing coverts ...

The Northern Mockingbird, Texas's state bird since 1927, contrasts sharply with the endangered Attwater Prairie Chicken, now down to 200 in the wild, best seen at the Houston refuge.

Thin and long tailed, with outer tail feathers almost entirely white (tail from below looks white). The bill is thin and pale gray. Breeding male: blue-gray above, including most of head and back.