Hill said that if the bird has any red feathers on its body at all, then it’s not a yellow cardinal, as the mutation makes those birds incapable of having feathers that color. “There’s no ...

A red-capped manakin will moonwalk better than Michael Jackson in a lek of others when it wants to attract a female mate.

The back shows 2 rows of whitish or yellow-buff spots or bars, but this patterning is very limited in northern birds. Adult: red head and breast, pale yellow belly, back black with geographically ...

Funny thing is, when a bird looks this good, they often don’t sound good. In fact, the male yellow-headed blackbird sounds like he is choking, and when he does get his call out, it sounds like a ...

Yellow-crowned night herons have grey bodies, black and white-head, vibrant red eyes, and yellow crown consisting of a long plume. johnandersonphoto/Getty Images/iStockphoto ...

In rapid succession, pitch-perfect imitations of red-headed and red-bellied woodpeckers, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, northern flickers, gray tree frogs, red-tailed hawks, killdeer and house finches ...