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The Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus) is an aristocratic, handsome songbird native to the deciduous forests of eastern North America. Affectionately nicknamed the ‘robin that went to opera school’ for its rich, liquid, melodious song, the...
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The Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) is a radiant, vibrant songbird renowned across eastern North America for the male’s incandescent, all-blue plumage. Often described as a ‘piece of the sky come down to earth,’ this spirited little cardinal...
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The Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris), historically admired by French naturalists as ‘nonpareil’ (meaning ‘without equal’), is widely celebrated as the most breathtakingly multicolored songbird in North America. Flaunting an astonishing visual...
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The Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra) is an incandescent, flame-colored songbird celebrated as the only completely red bird in North America (lacking the black wings of the Scarlet Tanager and the crest of the Northern Cardinal). High in the forest canopy, this...
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Swainson’s Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) is an ethereal woodland songbird celebrated across North America for having one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs in the natural world. Known to birdwatchers by its distinctive buff-colored eye rings and cheeks that...
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The Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) is widely considered one of the most breathtakingly ethereal songbirds in North America, celebrated for the male’s seamless, luminous turquoise-cerulean plumage that mirrors the cloudless alpine sky. Hovering like a...
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The Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) is a charming, inquisitive woodland acrobat that brightens southern forests and backyard feeders throughout the American Southeast. Famously identified by its crisp black cap and bib contrasting with clean white cheeks,...
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The Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) is one of the most recognizable and vocal gems of North America’s northern conifer forests. With its vibrant lemon-yellow cheeks, stark jet-black throat bib, and olive-green back, this energetic Neotropical...
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Lincoln’s Sparrow (Melospiza lincolnii) is an exquisite, secretive songbird celebrated for its rich, musical, wren-like gurgling song and finely etched plumage. Named by John James Audubon after his companion Thomas Lincoln during an 1833 expedition to Labrador,...
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The Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus), famously recognized by its distinctive ‘drink-your-tea!’ song and energetic ‘chewink!’ call, is a bold, strikingly patterned sparrow of dense North American brushlands. With his jet-black hood, warm...
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