It is a lustrous steel blue on top, with a white belly, and a midnight blue or black crest and bib and cheek patches. The ...

The white-browed wagtail is a widespread resident with a black head, black mantle and white supercilium. A typical ground bird that wags its tail up and down. Black winged stilt is a long-legged ...

Red-breasted nuthatch — Eats nyger seed and peanuts; small bird with white belly, red breast, dark cap with black line through eye; common some winters, mostly absent others. Common redpoll ...

They are easy to identify with the crisp black-and-white crown stripes of the adults and their pink or yellow bill. First winter (immature) birds sport buff and brown head stripes.

If you’re out enjoying Alabama’s beaches this weekend for the Fourth of July, you may spot a black and white bird flying very low over the water, or maybe flopped on the sand, trying to rest.

Feathers above its nose are black, and it has white cheeks. This bird whistles “peter peter peter” songs. ... It’s dark at the shoulders and head with a very white belly,” she said.

This bird is the familiar ... All red-bellied woodpeckers show a black-and-white ... is red; there is a suffusion of pink or red on the center of the belly. Adult female: red on the head is ...

Their feet are located toward the rear of the bird for maximum underwater propulsion. Even the white belly is a form of camouflage that makes the bird difficult for the fish to see from below. In ...