BWD Magazine – Page 48

House Finch

Look For People who feed birds are familiar with the house finches that sometimes cover feeders with fluttering, tweeting flocks. […]

Look For The male purple finch is washed with a raspberry red (not purple), as if he’d been dipped upside

This highly variable species is usually a denizen of the North and of the mountainous, but periodic irruptions bring large

Look For The smallest oriole in North America is also the darkest, with a designer color scheme of chestnut and

Look For Baltimore orioles are slightly smaller and more slender than American robins. Look for a thin, sharp, silver, gray,

The yellow-headed blackbird is a real stunner in the plumage department. The male is the only North American bird with

The rusty blackbird is primarily a bird of the wet woodlands and swamps of the East, migrating north and/or westward

Look For The conk-a-ree call of the male red-winged blackbird fills the air over marshes and fields all across North

Look For An adult male is all black with a pale eye. Plumage can appear glossy purple and green in

Look For A familiar bird of rural farm fields, meadows, and grasslands, the eastern meadowlark is known by its distinctive

Look For Nearly half of the common grackle’s 12 ½-inch length is its tail. The grackle’s black plumage is glossy

What Does a Brown-headed Cowbird Look Like? The brown-headed cowbird is a small (7 ½ inches long) blackbird. Males have