The noisy fowler catches no birds. A proverb Verdin The Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) is a species of penduline tit. It is the only species in the family to be found in the New World. Identification Tips: • Length: 3.5 inches • Short, thin bill • Yellow face • Black lores…
A mute bird makes no omen. A Spanish proverb Yellow Wagtail The Yellow Wagtail, Motacilla flava, is a small passerine in the wagtail family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and longclaws. Identification Tips: • Length: 5.5 inches • Slender bill • Yellow underparts • Olive back • Dark wings…
He that will take the bird must not scare it. An English proverb Spot-breasted Oriole The Spot-breasted Oriole (Icterus pectoralis) is a species of bird in the Icteridae family. The Spot-breasted Oriole is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States. Identification Tips:…
As the old birds sings, the young ones twitter. A German proverb Western Meadowlark The Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) is a medium-sized blackbird, very similar in appearance to the Eastern Meadowlark. Their breeding habitats are grasslands, prairies, pastures, and abandoned fields. Their nests are situated on the ground, and are…
My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar – I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one. A Bob Hope quotation Red-bellied Woodpecker The Red-bellied Woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus, is a medium-sized woodpecker of the Picidae family. Identification Tips: • Length: 8.5 inches •…
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. A Jacques Deval (1890-1972) quotation; a French playwright and director The charming little bird is a bird of Tropical and Lower Sonoran Zones and occurs in the United States only in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.…
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. A Robert Lynd quotation In the elevated and arid, or semi-arid, plains, extending northward into southern Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas…
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair A Chinese proverb The bird is found North and also South America. Unlike most of our migrant birds, this bird arrives in New England quite unobtrusively. It’s…
