BIRD IDENTIFICATION RESOURCES
BIRDS • WONDER • DELIGHT
BIRD ID GUIDES
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The common goldeneye is a medium-sized, large-headed diving duck with a spectacular eponymous yellow eye visible even from a considerable distance. Its forehead slopes …
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Among flycatchers, the yellow-bellied flycatcher is distinguished by its olive-green overall color, yellow throat, and complete white eye ring.
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The loud and abrupt chebunk …
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With its generous-sized head, long wings, and a short, wide tail, the olive-sided flycatcher is one of the largest tyrant flycatchers. It has a …
What Does a Band-tailed Pigeon Look Like?
Band-tailed pigeons are a large pigeon with a purple-gray head and gray body. A white crescent or collar on …
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American bitterns are a plump, medium-seized wading bird with a stout neck and a bill that has a heavy base. Adults are brown above, …
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The pygmy nuthatch is a small songbird with a large, round head and short legs, wings, and tail. Its upperwings and back are a …
REGIONAL GUIDES
In September 1883, a tired and dispirited young man stepped off a westbound train into the tiny hamlet of Medora in the Dakota Territory, and …
Every spring, about two thousand volunteers spread out across North America to count birds for the government. The Canadian Wildlife Service and the U.S. Fish …
“Where can we find three-toed and black-backed woodpeckers?” We were at Custer State Park, South Dakota. Three-toed and black-backed woodpeckers are on the park bird …
Prior to 2004 I’d never been to South Dakota, but that year a series of unrelated events took me to the Mount Rushmore State three …
When bird watchers die (or, as my dad would say, shoot through), they must go to North Dakota in June. Heaven just wouldn’t measure up. …
Birding South Dakota
South Dakota is a study in habitat variety: large reservoirs from the Missouri River, mountains of the Black Hills, and tallgrass prairie and …