A male Blackbird sings slow, mellow, whistled phrases, each usually ending in a short, scratchy twitter, most regularly from March to June and richest at dawn. Its calls include a loud chink, a low ...

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The Oregon Junco, the Slate-colored Junco and four other forms are all one species, the Dark-eyed Junco. How to recognize each one, male and female, where each lives, the Guadalupe Junco, and how ...

Perched on a fence post with its bill tilted skyward, the Western Meadowlark delivers one of the most celebrated songs on the North American continent — a rich, bubbling, flute-like melody that ...

Slender, secretive, and built for speed, the Black-billed Cuckoo is a long-distance migrant that travels from the forests of eastern North America to the rainforests of South America each year — and ...

The male Black-throated Blue Warbler is so strikingly different from his mate that Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon each described them as two entirely separate species — a mistake that stood ...

Every autumn, Pacific Golden-Plovers leave the Arctic tundra and fly non-stop across 4,800 km of open ocean to reach Hawaii — a journey of three to four days with no chance to land, rest, or feed. To ...

Barely larger than a ping-pong ball, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet carries a secret: beneath a plain cap of olive-green feathers, the male conceals a blazing scarlet crown patch that he reveals only in ...

Bold white wing patches that flash like a crescent moon in flight, crimson eyes ringed with bare blue skin, and a call widely immortalised in a Stevie Nicks hit — the White-winged Dove is one of North ...

Dressed in a finely streaked buff-and-grey suit that makes it look almost too neat for the boggy thickets it calls home, Lincoln's Sparrow is one of North America's most secretive songbirds. Despite a ...

Long pastel-blue legs, a bold black-and-white body, and a head blazing cinnamon-orange in the breeding season — the American Avocet is one of the most visually arresting shorebirds in North America.

With a bold harlequin face of chestnut, black, and white that no other North American sparrow can match, the Lark Sparrow is one of the continent's most instantly recognisable grassland birds. A ...