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Brewer’s Sparrow (Spizella breweri) is the quintessential avian voice of the vast, windswept ‘sagebrush sea’ of the American West. Although modestly dressed in subtle, sand-colored plumage that blends seamlessly into the silver-green shrublands, this...
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The Pygmy Nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea) is a tiny, hyperactive songbird intimately tied to the towering ponderosa pine forests of the American West. Travelling in noisy, chattering family bands that swarm across outer pine needles and rough bark, this miniature avian...
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The Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens) is the darkest, most richly colored chickadee in North America and the quintessential avian voice of Pacific Northwest temperate rainforests. Perfectly adapted to the dripping, moss-draped canopies of Douglas firs,...
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The Evening Grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertina) is a spectacular, heavy-billed finch that illuminates the northern boreal forests and western mountain conifer groves of North America. Flaunting dazzling plumage of glowing golden-yellow, charcoal, and snowy-white, this...
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Townsend’s Warbler (Setophaga townsendi) is a dazzling, vibrant Neotropical migrant that decorates the highest canopies of Pacific Northwest coniferous rainforests like a living golden jewel. Named in honor of 19th-century naturalist John Kirk Townsend, adult...
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The Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli) is a beloved, hardy little songbird that brings cheerful acoustic life to the snowy, windswept evergreen forests of the American West. Instantly distinguishable from all other chickadees by a crisp, snowy-white eyebrow stripe...
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The Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius) is the quintessential musical voice of the Pacific Northwest’s dripping, moss-draped temperate rainforests. Renowned for its haunting, otherworldly song—a single, long, eerie vibrating whistle followed after a pause by another...
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The Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) is an incandescent, jewel-like songbird named after the vivid blue gemstone lapis lazuli. Lighting up brushy hillsides and sunlit mountain river valleys across western North America each spring, the male’s dazzling...
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The Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus) is a handsome, melodious songbird celebrated across western North America for its rich, liquid robin-like song and its monumental, cone-shaped bone-crushing bill. Breeding males display a striking palette of rich...
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The Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) is an incandescent, tropical-colored songbird that brings a burst of rainforest brilliance to the high conifer forests of the American West. Adult breeding males are unforgettable: sporting a glowing flame-orange to...
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