American Robin for identification

American Robin

American Robins are a common sight on lawns eating earthworms. They have black heads and backs with red or … Read more

Mourning Dove

Mourning Dove

Mourning Doves are graceful, small-headed birds with plump bodies and long tails. They are a soft brown color with … Read more

gray catbird

Gray Catbird

Gray Catbirds are so named because of their distinctive catty mew song that can last for up to … Read more

Chinese pond heron (Ardeola bacchus).

Chinese Pond Heron

Nonbreeding adults have golden-brown streaked heads, yellow eyes and lores (area in front of the eye towards the … Read more

Green Heron

Green Heron

Green Herons are named such because of the glossy green-black coloring of their crowns, crests, backs, and wings, … Read more

Tricolored Heron

You can quickly tell a Tricolored Herons apart from other herons with its white belly and neck stripe. … Read more

American bittern. Botaurus lentiginosus

American Bittern

If you’re lucky, you will hear the weird watery boom calls in the spring of the American Bittern … Read more