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.

The yellow-crested helmetshrike (Prionops alberti), also known as King Albert’s helmetshrike, is a small bird that lives in the humid forests of the Albertine Rift mountains in central Africa.

The rediscovery in 1999 of a small cluster of yellow-eared parrots, striking green birds with yellow markings in western Colombia, led to the creation of a reserve. The population grew to thousands.