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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, ...
With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other species.
If you’re one of the many people hiking though Alabama’s forests this summer, you may want to look for the yellow-billed ...
The wings of monarchs that survive a 2,000-mile-long migration tend to be spottier, suggesting that feature may aid the insects’ ability to fly.
Built in June on the fork of a horizontal conifer branch near the trunk at low to moderate height, the yellow-rumped Warbler’s nest contains 3 to 6 eggs. Polytypic (6 ssp.). Length 5.3".
Researchers find that the white spots on the wings of monarch butterflies may help them fly farther. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on June 21, 2023.) Accessibility links ...
Funny thing is, when a bird looks this good, they often don’t sound good. In fact, the male yellow-headed blackbird sounds like he is choking, and when he does get his call out, it sounds like a ...
The handsome black-headed grosbeak is the western counterpart to the East’s rose-breasted grosbeak, and the 2 even occasionally hybridize where they come into contact in the western Great Plains ...
Christmas bird counts in the Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent areas have so far turned up numerous owl sightings, a rare glimpse of a yellow-headed blackbird and a first-ever sighting of a sparrow ...
Bill and Earlene Gill say a bird with two heads, two beaks and two wings connected to one plump little body visited their backyard in Cape Breton, N.S., at least twice in January. They think it's ...