BWD Magazine – Page 46

Western Kingbird

Look For Among our common flycatchers, the western kingbird, with its pale gray head, white throat, and lemon yellow belly, […]

Look For Crawling like a zebra-striped nuthatch along a tree branch or trunk, the black-and-white warbler makes its living gleaning

Look For It’s the golden face patch and black throat that are the most noticeable features on the male black-throated

Look For The male magnolia warbler has one of almost every field mark common to our songbirds: eye line, mask,

Look For The yellow-breasted chat is our largest warbler, though it does not really look, act, or sound like a

Look For The orange-crowned warbler is a small and very plain warbler with a small finely pointed bill and a

Look For A tiny warbler of the treetops, the northern parula’s yellow throat and white belly are often all you

Why do we bird? Is it our hunting instinct sublimated? Could it be that our penchant for collecting is being

By the staff of Bird Watcher’s Digest April showers bring May flowers—and baby songbirds. Invariably, some will fall out of

Look For It’s hard to misidentify a male vermilion flycatcher, with his flaming red crown, throat, and underparts offset by

Look For The graceful curves of the American avocet’s bill and neck serve it well as it feeds while walking

Look For A breeding adult has a dark crown, white eye-stripe, and a subtle dark mustache. Interestingly, it is very