BWD Magazine – Page 60

Green Heron

The green heron isn’t exactly green, but it’s the most greenish of the North American herons. Perhaps a better name […]

Far smaller and darker than a great blue heron, the adult little blue heron is easily confused with the tricolored

The American Kestrel is North America’s smallest falcon. In flight, the kestrel has sharp-looking, pointed wings and a slender, long

Many non-birders call it a crane or a stork, but the heron can be instantly distinguished from these other large,

Often, the somewhat snakelike black neck and head is all that betrays the presence of a swimming double-crested cormorant. With

A long thin neck and small head, thin yellow bill, and white feathers on the wings and back set the

At 4 feet long and with a 7-foot wingspan, the brown pelican is one of our largest and most distinctive

This huge white bird (with a nine-foot wingspan!) has black flight feathers, and a large yellow-orange bill making it hard

Our largest grebe, the western grebe is black and white with a very long, swan-like neck, striking red eyes, and

Horned grebes have relatively straight, short, fairly thin bills. If you are close enough to see the yellow tip, then

It is often in a rounded, half-moon shape and sometimes extends to include more of the face and even the

Listen For The haunting high yodel of the common loon echoes across wooded lakes in the North. It also gives