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Small white heron. Has Yellow eyes.

Large chicken-like bird. This is a forest-dwelling grouse native to the Rocky Mountains in North America.

Loud and inquisitive bird. Notice the head-markings.

Brown color birds with a pale breast. Most easily distinguished by call.

Huge blackbird with boisterous nature. Its tapered tail is nearly as long as its body and folds into a distinctive keel shape.

North America's most abundant neotropical migrants. Not afraid to see eye-to-eye!!

On the hunt for food.

Perhaps the most versatile foragers of all warblers. They're the warbler you're most likely to see fluttering out from a tree.

Also known as Turtle Dove or Rain Dove, this slender-tailed, small-headed dove is common in North America.

Bird native to South-east Asia.

Noisy, hyperactive little bird. Usually flicks its long tail as it hops from branch to branch.

Bird in the crow family. You can see the Nictitating membrane (transparent or translucent third eyelid) used to protect eyes and moisten it while maintaining visibility.

Common backyard birds found in Oregon & California.

Anna's humming bird - Male.

Anna's humming bird - Female.

Humming Bird's wings will rotate in a full circle.

Known for its natural alertness mechanism, which allows it to stay awake for up to two weeks during migration. This effect has been studied for possible human applications, such as shift-work drowsiness or truck driving.

Its feathers are all ruffled up. Wonder whats going on in its mind!!

Fairly large songbirds.

Bushtits are tiny, kinglet-sized birds.

Distinctive warblers with conspicuous patterns of high contrast.

Also known as Gulls. Are typically medium to large birds, usually grey or white.

Most easily recognized waterbirds with their bright feathers and strongly hooked bills. Their pink or reddish color comes from the rich sources of carotenoid pigments.

This is native to western North America. These birds are among the most intelligent of animals. The brain-to-body mass ratio of adult Scrub Jays rivals that of chimpanzees.

Male Chinese Goose have a distinct bright orange knob on their heads.

On a Leisure walk!

Humming Birds are the tiniest birds in the world. The edges of their top beak will overlap the edges of the bottom beak.

House Finches are small-bodied finches with fairly large beaks and long, flat heads.

Very active birds. Their heart rate can reach as high as 1260 beats per minute.

One of the most abundant forest birds of North America.

These birds can hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings 12 to 80 times per second.

A large and dark jay. Like other jays, Steller's Jay are intelligent and noisy.

Humming Birds can flash their bright colors, as well as hide them when needed.

The brain of Humming Bird is 4.2% of its body weight, the largest proportion in the bird kingdom.

Lesser Goldfinches are tiny songbirds with long, pointed wings, and short, notched tails.

Humming Birds can extend their tongues great distances (in some cases the length of their heads) to retrieve nectar.

About 30% of a Humming Bird's weight consists of flight muscles.

Also known as Java Finch, Java Rice Sparrow or Java Rice Bird. Resident breeding bird in Java, Bali and Bawean in Indonesia.

Smooth Landing ...

Songbird of tit family.

Mid-air Aerodynamics. The flight of these birds has been studied intensively from an aerodynamic perspective.

Native to North America.

Scrub Jay are quite vocal and have a huge range of sounds and calls.

Mourning Doves are light grey and brown and generally muted in color. Males and females are similar in appearance.

Acorn Woodpeckers live in oak and mixed oak-conifer forests on slopes and mountains.

Native to Western North America, closely related to the Blue Jay found in the rest of the continent, but with a black head and upper body.

Collage of two shots. These birds are known as 'The Clowns of the Avian World'.

House Finch is a bird in the finch family Fringillidae, which is found in North America.

Steller's Jay (and the Blue Jay) are the only New World jays that use mud in the construction of their nests.

Is a Shorebird. Killdeer get their name from the shrill, wailing kill-deer call they give so often.

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