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With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other species.

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Learn what an adult and juvenile black-crowned night-heron looks like. Plus, find out where you can see one of these wading birds.

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Red-winged blackbirds vexed me when I first started birding. Not the males. They’re easy. They have that sleek all-black ...

A: Most birds are fairly secretive as they build their nests, to avoid being spotted by a predator that might return later on a raiding visit. So, it’s not surprising that you haven’t seen ...

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As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within.

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