Scott’s oriole is a vividly contrasting bird of the dry Southwest. They are long and slender with black heads, backs, wings, and chests, and yellow undersides. They also have white barring on ...

Prominent black crescent framing lower edge of auricular. On perched bird, wing patch shows only as a thin white line along the leading edge of the folded wing. Adult male: grayish or grayish ...

An unusually long-tailed black-and-white corvid with a black bill. In good light, black on wings and tail shine with ... rowing wingbeats, but the birds are easily able to quickly change direction ...

The United States has used the bald eagle as a national symbol since George Washington was president. But it only became the national bird recently, and only after a Minnesota man caught the oversight ...