The bird is very shy and secretive. Most folks have never seen the yellow-bellied sapsucker working on their trees and have a hard time accepting that a small bird is doing all this damage.

Look for a small yellow bird with black wings, tail and forehead and an orange bill. They are very striking, says Scott Gremel, a wildlife biologist at Washingtons Olympic National Park.

For that reason, he added, they “were very vague about where ... The rediscovery in 1999 of a small cluster of yellow-eared parrots, striking green birds with yellow markings in western Colombia ...

For the yellow ... a really important question,” says study leader Jocelyn Hudon, an ornithologist at the Royal Alberta Museum in Canada. “Colors are an important signal in birds, so a change ...

One of the next honeycreepers headed toward extinction is the kiwikiu, a small yellow bird ... "It was really hard," says Hanna Mounce, program manager at the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project.

In an increasingly urbanised world, many birds are having to adapt to a new habitat: the urban jungle. I live in a rented house in inner Melbourne, and in my very small garden I have two spotted ...