and reddish-brown upperparts, and bright yellow underparts. They also have very distinctive black V shapes across their chests. The evening grosbeak is a wintering bird throughout most of the ...

Its calls are usually loud and often provide the best evidence to the presence of the bird ... yellow-billed cuckoo has a slender body, a long tail, and rounded wings. Adults have grayish brown ...

Look for the conical, seed-cracking bill. If the drab brown birds have a touch of yellow on the wings, they could be pine siskins, an uncommon visitor from Canada. Other brown visitors to the ...

"Brown shades are more common in natural environments than in cities. We suspect that brown birds are at a disadvantage in a rather gray city. The predominant colors of a city and the lack of ...

The small brown bird weighs around 16 grams (roughly half an ounce) and has black and yellow bands along with a large beak. The finding, which was reported in the science journal Nature ...