Bird Species – Page 8

Boat-tailed Grackle

Look For This big, dark bird is like a common grackle with a tail extension. Males are dark bluish green […]

Look For The lark bunting is 7 inches in length. Breeding-plumaged adult males are nearly all black with a large

Look For The “desert cardinal” looks like a northern cardinal that has gone gray. Pyrrhuloxias are 8 ¾ inches in

Look For Adult male is orange and black with an orange crown and black face and throat. The “hood” on

Look For Adult male is bright orange below with an orange face, black throat and crown, and black eye line.

Look For Harris’s sparrow is our largest sparrow (7 ½ inches in length), and its combination of a black face

Look For An adult golden-crowned sparrow has a golden crown stripe surrounded by black. Slightly larger than, but very similar

Look For No other North American sparrow has the lark sparrow’s combination of a bold, colorful facial pattern and central

Look For The California towhee is a large and plainly marked ground-sparrow. It is about 9 inches in length. It

Look For This bird is 8 ¾ inches in length. The canyon towhee has a faint rusty cap, is slightly

Look For The spotted towhee’s wings and back of both male and female are spotted with white. They are longer

Look For Most of us don’t get to see the male snow bunting in its snowiest attire—its pure white-and-black breeding