“Northern mockingbirds seem to enjoy sitting on this euonymus shrub. I always look for them in fall. When I took this photo, the striking backdrop was a crimson and orange maple tree. All the season’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People love to say "kids say the darndest things," but in my opinion, it's actually parrots. They say lots of normal things, like ...

What do you get when you combine the broad wings and big body of a raptor with a little curved beak on a small dove-like head? You get the gray-headed kite. The gray-headed kite (Leptodon cayanensis) ...

The gray jay lives year round in the spruce-fir forests of Canada and the northern U.S. It’s a member of the corvid (crow) family, but even compared with its not-so-bashful blue jay and black crow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This picture of a male American goldfinch was taken during the summer in my backyard. Goldfinches love zinnia seeds and often ...

A photo of the Spectacled Flowerpecker taken in the Lanjak Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary, Segerak research station. While scientists and birdwatchers have previously glimpsed the small, gray bird in ...

Harry Riker did not realize he was looking at an exceptionally rare bird when he spotted the gray bird with the blue tail and yellow sides outside his home. Riker, 69, spends significant amounts of ...

Bushtits—almost impossibly tiny gray birds that live in flocks across the western United States—are not hard to spot in the Bay Area. I usually become aware of them by noticing a chorus of peeping in ...