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The yellow-billed oxpecker is 20 cm (7.9 in) long and has plain brown upperparts and head, buff underparts and a pale rump. The feet are strong. The adults' bills are yellow at the base and red at the tip, while juveniles have brown bills. [10] Its flight is strong and direct. The call is a hissy, crackling krisss, krisss.
There is more genetic variation between common starling populations than between the nominate common starling and the spotless starling. [11] Although common starling remains are known from the Middle Pleistocene , [ 12 ] part of the problem in resolving relationships in the Sturnidae is the paucity of the fossil record for the family as a whole.
The shortest-bodied species is Kenrick's starling (Poeoptera kenricki), at 15 cm (6 in), but the lightest-weight species is Abbott's starling (Poeoptera femoralis), which is 34 g (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 oz). The largest starling, going on standard measurements and perhaps weight, is the Nias hill myna ( Gracula robusta ).
“It started to become a bit of an obsession,” recalled the photographer, who recently published a book of his starling images. “And every night that we went down, we learned a little bit more.
A pair of adult female right whales, Koala and Curlew, have mystified researchers this winter as they cruised south along the Florida coast, then made a surprise appearance this week off Alabama ...
The willow ptarmigan is the state bird of Alaska. The list of birds of Alaska includes every wild bird species recorded in the U.S. state of Alaska, based on the list published by the Alaska Checklist Committee. As of January 2022, there were 534 species on the official list. Of them, 55 are considered rare, 149 are casual, and 79 are accidental, all as defined below. Another 18 and a species ...
Most species have black as a predominant plumage color, often enlivened by yellow, orange, or red. The species in the family vary widely in size, shape, behavior, and coloration. The name, meaning " jaundiced ones" (from the prominent yellow feathers of many species) comes from the Ancient Greek ikteros via the Latin ictericus .
Federal wildlife officials said Monday they are delaying a long-awaited decision to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct, months after grainy photos and videos emerged that purported to ...