Birds > Songbirds
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...
Birds > Songbirds
The Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata), affectionately known to birdwatchers as the ‘Butterbutt,’ is one of the hardiest and most abundant migratory songbirds in North America. Instantly identified in flight by its blazing lemon-yellow rump patch,...
Birds > Songbirds
The Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia) is a brilliant, sunshine-colored songbird celebrated as one of the most widespread and recognizable warblers in the Western Hemisphere. Filling riparian willow thickets across North America with its cheerful, musical...
Birds > Passerines
The Bornean Bristlehead (Pityriasis gymnocephala) is one of the most enigmatic, taxonomically isolated, and ancient passerine birds in the world. Sole surviving member of its own monotypic family, Pityriasidae, this living fossil is strictly endemic to the lowland...
Birds > Passerines
The Bare-necked Fruitcrow (Gymnoderus foetidus) is an extraordinary, bizarrely adorned canopy songbird in the cotinga family Cotingidae. Native to the vast river systems and tropical lowlands of the Amazon and Orinoco basins, this large, social frugivore is celebrated...