What do Northern Shovelers look like? One key feature used to identify a northern shoveler – male and female – is its wide, flat, spatula-like bill (dark gray in males and orange in females). However, ...

This stunning red and black goose migrates vast distances from Arctic Russia to wintering grounds in Eastern Europe, where flocks of up to 50,000 birds create spectacular displays against winter skies ...

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 ...

Few North American birds stop traffic quite like the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. The adult male carries a tail up to 23 cm long — often longer than the rest of his body — which he opens and closes like ...

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 ...

A lemon-yellow face blazing against a jet-black throat makes the male Black-throated Green Warbler one of the most instantly recognisable warblers in North America. This small but persistent songbird ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite a global population of around 4 million birds, the Philadelphia Vireo remains one of North America's most overlooked songbirds — its song so similar to the abundant Red-eyed Vireo that even ...