What do Wigeons look like? Eurasian wigeons are medium-sized ducks with rounded heads. Males and females are unalike: males have a yellowish forehead stripe, a chestnut head and neck, a pink breast ...

This master architect weaves intricate nests from grass and palm fibres, creating hanging masterpieces that dot the African savannah landscape. The Southern Masked Weaver is a small, vibrant bird with ...

A bright rufous cap, a razor-clean white eyebrow, and a bold black eye-stripe make the breeding Chipping Sparrow one of the most crisply marked small birds in North America. Once the most common city ...

Feral pigeons coo low and soft with the bill shut, the gullet swelling the throat. Males give a rolling display coo while they bow and strut, and both sexes give a nest call from the nest site.

A raven is bigger than a crow, with a wedge-shaped tail and a deep croak. A crow caws Size alone misleads, because a lone crow can look huge. Listen first, then watch it fly: a raven soars and tumbles ...

What it means when you see a cardinal, according to the beliefs people hold, and where those beliefs come from: the name borrowed from the Catholic Church, the Cherokee legend of the redbird as the ...

Male and female Brown Thrashers look alike: no plumage mark separates them. Males average slightly larger, but not enough to see. The clues are behavior: only males are known to give the loud song, ...

Baby Robins look nothing like their parents. They leave the nest at about two weeks old, brown and speckled, with no red breast; the red grows in during their first summer. Here is each stage of a ...

Baby pigeons, called squabs, hatch after 16-19 days with closed eyes and a sparse coat of yellow down. Both parents feed them crop milk from the lining of the crop, then seeds. They stay hidden in the ...

Few bird families capture the imagination quite like finches, these seed-cracking specialists whose remarkable diversity brings vibrancy to Britain's skies year-round. With their distinctive conical ...

Seeds. About 99% of a Mourning Dove's diet is seeds, from crops or wild plants, and the little animal food it takes, mostly snails, is incidental. 1 They occasionally eat berries. 2 Where farmers grow ...

Eleonora's Falcon is a sleek, medium-sized raptor with long, pointed wings and a long tail. Its plumage varies, with two colour morphs: dark and light. The dark morph is uniformly dark brown, while ...