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Recurvirostridae is a family of large wading birds which includes the avocets and stilts. The avocets have long legs and long up-curved bills. The stilts have extremely long legs and long, thin, straight bills. Two species have been recorded in New Jersey. Black-necked stilt, Himantopus mexicanus; American avocet, Recurvirostra americana
According to data collected by the USA TODAY Network, the following 10 species have emerged as the most-sighted birds across New Jersey. The data was collected from Nov. 1 to April 30 since 2011 ...
The immature bird has a dull brown back, and the underside is pale yellow. The shoulders and tail are a dull black with buff-colored, rather than white, markings on wings and rump. This coloration is the same in both sexes. [17] The song is a series of musical warbles and twitters, often with a long note.
The black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia), also known as the American magpie, is a bird in the corvid family found in the western half of North America.It is black and white, with the wings and tail showing black areas and iridescent hints of blue and blue-green.
The rusty blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) is a medium-sized New World blackbird, closely related to grackles ("rusty grackle" is an older name for the species).It is a bird that prefers wet forested areas, breeding in the boreal forest and muskeg across northern Canada, and migrating southeast to the United States during winter.
Easily identifiable thanks to their black cap-like markings, Black-capped Chickadees are one of the most studied and frequent songbirds to feeders and backyards in North America.
Flocks of black birds have been spotted in backyards and parks over the past few weeks in the Triangle, causing many of us to do a double take when we leave our homes or pass a large, grassy field ...
The common blackbird (Turdus merula) is a species of true thrush.It is also called the Eurasian blackbird (especially in North America, to distinguish it from the unrelated New World blackbirds), [2] or simply the blackbird where this does not lead to confusion with a similar-looking local species.