BWD Magazine – Page 52

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Look for The orange (not red) breast and black line through the eye set apart the red-breasted nuthatch from the […]

Look for The tufted titmouse is 61/2 inches long and dressed primly across its upperparts in gray, with a creamy breast

Look for Only about 4 ½ inches in length, the Carolina chickadee has a black cap and bib with a

Look For All of our common chickadees have black caps, but only this one is called black-capped. Black-cappeds tend to

Look for Our largest swallow (at 8 inches), the purple martin is a graceful flyer with a bubbly, liquid song.

Look for One early naturalist estimated that a barn swallow that lived 10 years would fly more than two million

Although common, it is still less abundant than tree swallows and tends to migrate individually or in small groups, rather

Long triangular wings, snow-white underparts, and glossy teal-blue upperparts make the tree swallow a beautiful signal of spring. Soaring kite-like,

In North America, fish crows are most commonly found in the southeastern United States. They are most common in coastal

This species and its close cousin, the Woodhouse’s scrub-jay, until recently were considered one species, called the western scrub-jay. California

Sometimes persecuted by humans as nest robbers or bullies at the feeding station, blue jays are one of our most

An unrelieved glossy black from bill to toenail, crows are armed with a stout, strong bill that acts as a