A deep contrast in colors can draw the eye and make birds ... brown upper sides, and white undersides. They have a long orange bill, long legs, and a thick neck. And adults have bright yellow ...

It’s a crisp morning at the Botanic Garden near the Capitol, and I’m training my binoculars on a Carolina wren: a bulbous brown bird with a white streak above its eye. The wren skirts ... Throughout ...

Juvenile: Brown and buff head; streaked underparts. The white-throated sparrow has a dark bill, prominent white throat, and yellow supraloral. Immature simi­lar to immature golden-crowned ...

If you’ve seen a small, brown bird with a bold white eye stripe eating out of your feeder or rustling around in the leaves in your yard, you are now acquainted with the Carolina wren.

At first glance, its bright yellow eyes are beautiful, but when this bird is full courtship mode ... Related: Meet the rainbow serpent: the white-lipped python Like the flame bowerbird, the masked ...

Researchers have discovered that jackdaws use their eyes ... white and their striking pale irises are very conspicuous against their dark feathers." While most birds have black or dark brown ...