Birders should be on the lookout for a gray head, as well as a striking yellow throat patch and yellow ... Females and immature birds follow the same coloration pattern, but muted.

the birds are glossy black all over, with strong suffusions of iridescent pinks, greens, and ambers. Bill usually gray in fall and yellow by winter, but this character varies with diet.

Adult male: gray on the head, and breast tinged pinkish; narrow white half-collar across the upper hind neck, with iridescent greenish below. Iris pale yellow ... most birds breeding in the ...