Eats insects and spiders. This bird is at home near human buildings and gardens. It often nests in bird boxes. Usually sits with its tail cocked upwards. The song consists of 2 to 5 notes followed by a trill.
Photo: Michael Thompson
A very small (4 inches long) plain bird of the family that also includes Chickadees. Very acrobatic when feeding. Eats insects, seeds, berries, and will eat at feeders. Female has light-colored eyes, male has dark eyes.
Photo: Derrick Ditchburn
A member of a large family of wood warblers, small active birds (usually smaller than a sparrow). The male has a black mask, the female does not. This bird is far more frequently heard than seen. The song has been described as "witchity-witchity-witchity" or "witchy-witchy-witchy."
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This non-native 6-inch bird was introduced in New York in 1890 and has spread throughout most of North America. Being aggressive, it has displaced many native birds by appropriating much of the food supply and driving them from nesting sites. In winter it is heavily speckled and has a dark bill. In spring the bill becomes bright yellow and the plumage becomes an irridescent black. They are often seen in small flocks on our lawns. Eats insects, seeds and berries.
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The bright red epaulets are most conspicuous in the spring; other times, the red may be concealed with only the yellow margin showing. They are gregarious and travel in flocks.
Photo: Doug Backlund
A ground-loving bird slightly larger than a sparrow. Nests are built close to or on the ground in dense plant cover.
Photo: Jim Bailey
Females are brown. House finches almost always are found in settled areas with houses, lawns, and small conifers. They are generally absent away from human habitation. House finch diets include mostly vegetable matter. They are abundant at bird feeders, where they prefer sunflower seeds. Females prefer to mate with the reddest males they can find.
Photo: Jim Bailey
This photo is of a male bird in summer breeding plumage. The female has duller yellow feathers and a greyish back and forehead. In autumn and winter, the male loses his black forehead feathers, and the yellow feathers become more drab, so he resembles a female.
Photo:Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife Conservation
A woodpecker. Although it can climb up the trunks of trees and hammer on wood like other woodpeckers, the Northern Flicker prefers to find food on the ground. Ants are its favorite food, and the flicker digs in the dirt to find them. It uses its long barbed tongue to lap up the ants. The Northern Flicker is one of the few North American woodpeckers that is strongly migratory. Flickers in the northern parts of the range move south for the winter, so we can see this bird in winter.
Photo: Jim Bailey