What Does a Western Kingbird Look Like? If you’ve spotted a western kingbird, your first thought will likely be about the bird’s beauty — they look truly regal. With a pale gray head ...

Ornamented in buff and pale feathers, the western snowy plover often goes unnoticed amongst the sand dunes it inhabits. Heedless of this shy, pocket-sized shorebird, developers have made the open ...

Eastern and western birds might represent 2 separate species. Two additional subspecies in Mexico. Fall birds greenish above, often with extensive yellow below, and can be confused with the ...

in­creasing numbers at eastern hawk-watches probably due to better identification skills. Winter: juveniles winter farther north than adults; eastern birds move to the southern states, western ...

But human population explosion has reduced the charismatic western burrowing owl's breeding populations by more than 60 percent, and counting. Early accounts of the owl in California described it as ...

The Vanishing Mew Gull: A Guide to the Bird Names of the Western Palearctic by Ray Reedman (Pelagic, 2024). ISBN: 9781784274627. Hbk, £65.