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Hybrid male. Has a red moustache like the red-shafted group, and a red nape like the yellow-shafted group. The face and throat are intermediate between the grey colour of the former and the peach colour of the latter. In Alberta. Adults are brown with black bars on the back and wings.
The adult dark morph has a slate blue body and reddish head and neck with shaggy plumes. The adult white morph has entirely white body plumage. Young birds have a brown body, head, and neck. During mating, the male's plumage stands out in a ruff on its head, neck and back. The bird's usual cry is a low, guttural croak.
The brown thrasher is the state bird of Georgia. [85] [86] The brown thrasher also was the inspiration for the name of Atlanta's former National Hockey League team, the Atlanta Thrashers, [87] who relocated in 2011 to become the current Winnipeg Jets (the original Jets relocated to Phoenix in 1996 to become the now-inactive Coyotes). [88]
There was a brown bird nibbling at the wild bird seed with a bright red head, she told McClatchy News in an interview. The only problem was its size. It was much too small to be a woodpecker.
The cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) is a member of the family Bombycillidae or waxwing family of passerine birds. It is a medium-sized bird that is mainly brown, gray, and yellow. Some of the wing feathers have red tips, the resemblance of which to sealing wax gives these birds their common name. It is a native of North and Central America ...
Overall reddish-brown, this large partridge-like bird has a somewhat long tail. The upper parts are brown with dark barring while the face and neck are more grey in the male. The underside is rufous with dark markings and both sexes have a red facial skin patch and red legs with one or two spurs (rarely three or four [ 10 ] while females may ...
The brown quail is a plump, stocky bird which can grow up to a length of 17 to 22 centimetres (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and weight of 75 to 140 grams (2 + 3 ⁄ 4 to 5 oz). The colour is quite variable over the bird's wide range. The male is reddish-brown speckled with black on the head and upper neck and mainly reddish-brown on back and ...
Females have a bluish head but no beard, spurs, or tipped feathers. Ruffed grouse are chicken-like birds that come in mostly red or brown and sometimes gray. They have a black band extending ...