Song bird

You can only see straight ahead, but you can hear in all directions at once. Learning bird songs is a great way to identify birds hidden by dense foliage, f ...

Once found only as far north as New Jersey and Iowa, the Tufted Titmouse now reaches southern Quebec and Ontario, likely due to warming winters and bird-feeding.

(via Green-headed Tanager by Arlei Bertani / 500px)

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A rich, russet-and-gray bird with bold streaks down its white chest, the Song Sparrow is one of the most familiar North American sparrows. Don’t let the bewildering variety of regional differences this bird shows across North America deter you: it’s one of the first species you should suspect if you see a streaky sparrow in an open, shrubby, or wet area. If it perches on a low shrub, leans back, and sings a stuttering, clattering song, so much the better.

This was the target bird for the trip my son and I made to the Colorado River in southeastern California. We found this handsome male in Mayflower Park in Blythe.

We've seen them gliding in our rivers, perching in our trees and soaring through our skies but which should be crowned Canada's bird? We'll hear arguments for the common loon, snowy owl, grey jay, Canada goose and black-capped chickadee in a debate at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

Prairie Warbler by Muskrat

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