While studying some of the birds feeding in my backyard, I saw a small woodpecker that acted and looked like a Downy. The ...

Along its red beak, the bird has a faded flesh-toned red that looks like it’s translucent and shows the blood underneath. The genus name “Haematopus” is Greek for blood-footed! 13.

more pointed bill, a white epaulet border, colder gray-buff upperpart markings in winter, and a different voice. One of the most abundant birds in North America, the red-winged’s count was ...

Staring pale-yellow eyes set off by red orbital ring ... but is much larger (not always easy to judge on lone birds) with stouter bill, dark brownish greater coverts, more finely peppered whitish ...

The colorful male sports a metallic-green head, white neck band and wing patches, a red bill and eyes, and a reddish, black-speckled breast, for which the bird is named.” Cornell Lab of ...