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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Why the Mourning Dove is called that, what American folk beliefs said about its call (rain, love, luck and death), its names in Cherokee, Navajo and Nahuatl, the doves of the Bible, and what modern ...

Look at the bill: a Dunnock's is thin and pointed, a House Sparrow's short and chunky. A Dunnock also has a grey head and breast and creeps about alone or in pairs, while House Sparrows go about in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 sparrow, the Least Flycatcher packs an outsized personality into a compact frame — its dry, emphatic che-BEC call, fired at roughly 60 times per minute on a summer morning, is one ...

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.

A bright rufous cap, a razor-clean white eyebrow, and a bold black eye-stripe make the breeding Chipping Sparrow one of the most crisply marked small birds in North America. Once the most common city ...

Alone among North American shorebirds, the Solitary Sandpiper nests in trees — borrowing the abandoned nests of robins and waxwings high in boreal spruces rather than scraping a hollow in the ground.

A shorebird that looks like a yellowlegs, feeds like a dowitcher, and belongs to neither group, the Stilt Sandpiper is one of North America's most distinctive waders. Its long greenish-yellow legs, ...