American Redstart perched on a branch, featuring black plumage with bright orange wing and side patches, white belly, and yellow tail feathers. Jet-black with blazing orange patches that flash like ...

Cinnamon Teal in flight over blue water, showing reddish-brown plumage, bright orange eye, and blue wing patches. A breeding male Cinnamon Teal is one of the most vividly coloured ducks in North ...

King Eider swimming in calm water, showing its distinctive yellow, red, blue-grey, and green head plumage with a black and white body. No other duck wears a frontal knob like a crown, curves jet-black ...

American Bittern in flight against a clear blue sky, showing brown streaked plumage, long beak, and yellow eye. Heard far more often than seen, the American Bittern is a master of invisibility — a ...

Ross's Goose in flight, descending with wings spread, showing white plumage, black wingtips, and a pink bill and legs against a blurred natural background. Snow-white with jet-black wingtips and a ...

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In 1782, the turkey narrowly missed out on the bald eagle for being named the national bird of the United States. However, as a symbol of family gatherings and gratitude, the appeal of the turkey ...

Magpies are a key member of the intelligent Corvidae family, and there are some 17 species distributed across much of the world. The commonest magpies are the Eurasian magpie and Black-billed magpies, ...

Most geese are generally gregarious birds who form flocks during migration and outside of the breeding season. If you've seen a flock of geese, you may already know that they can be rather noisy, but ...

Ospreys are common resident and migratory birds of prey that can be seen hunting over lakes, rivers, and coastal waterways all over the world. These successful raptors have perfected the art of ...

As a short winter's day ends and the light fades from the sky, a dense, pulsating, and humming mass materializes against the amber, blues, and violets of dusk. A flock of Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), ...