Bird Species – Page 11

Prothonotary Warbler

Look For The prothonotary warbler (pro-THON-oh-tary) is a bird of wooded swamps, where its loud song rings out. It is […]

Look For The field sparrow is a small bird (5 ¾ inches long) with a biggish bill and long tail,

Look For If the birds at your feeder seem skittish, there may be a sharp-shinned hawk nearby, ready to pounce.

Look For The Tennessee warbler is very active, short-tailed, and generally nondescript. The male is most distinctive in spring, when

Look For The yellow-throated warbler is a long-billed, 5 ½-inch-long warbler with a solid gray back; white eyeline, cheek patch,

Look For The two North American waterthrushes (Louisiana waterthrush and northern waterthrush) are confusingly similar, and both look more like

The pine warbler is unusual among North American warblers in that its winter range includes much of its breeding range,

Look For Singing from an exposed perch atop a sapling in an old field, the male blue-winged warbler is a

More often than not, marsh wrens are heard before they are seen—if they’re seen at all. Unlike their close counterpart

Formerly called the short-billed marsh wren, the sedge wren nests in thick, tangled areas of sedges and grasses in overgrown

Look For Our largest wren, the cactus wren is sometimes mistaken for a thrasher. The bold white eyebrow stands out

Look For Rusty brown body and grayish head contrast sharply with white throat and breast. Bill is very long, slender,