This Yellow-Crowned Night Heron was photographed at the Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge in Bell City, Louisiana.
This Yellow-Crowned Night Heron was photographed in San Antonio, Texas on the River walk.
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The Yellow-Crowned Heron is a gray heron with a black head with a white cheek patch and crown. It has speckled wings and back, long yellow legs, and a stout bill. It has a range of the east and gulf coast and southern United States. It has a habitat of cypress swamps, mangroves, bayous, marshes, and stream. It feeds on crustaceans, mainly crabs and crayfish. It is a more solitary and secretive bird.
This Nashville Warbler was photographed in Muskego, Wisconsin
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The Nashville Warbler has a gray head, yellow throat with a olive-green back and no wing bars. It has a bright white-eye ring. Males may show a dull chestnut crown patch. It has a range of southern Canada, and western and northern United States. It has a habitat of cool open mixed woods with undergrowth, forest edges, and bogs. The diet is mostly insects including beetles, caterpillars, grasshoppers, leafhoppers, aphids, including eggs and larvae.
The Nelson’s Sharp-Tailed Sparrow was phtographed in Lake Park, north of Bradford Beach, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan.
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The Nelson’s Sharp-Tailed Sparrow is a marsh sparrow with ocher-orange on the face and breast surrounding a gray ear patch. The back is sharply striped with white. It has a range of Canadian Prairies and the Atlantic Coast. It has a habitat in coastal and prairie marshes. It feeds on insects and some seeds. It has a sharp tail with spiky tips.
The Red-Headed Woodpecker was photographed at Lake Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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The Red-Headed Woodpecker is a black-backed Woodpecker with a head that is entirely red, and with a white rump and large square white patches on the wings. It has a range east of the Rockies from southern Canada to the Gulf States. It has a habitat in groves, farm country, orchards, shade trees in towns, and large scattered trees. Its diet consists of a wide variety of insects, spiders, earthworms, nuts, seeds, berries, and wild and cultivated fruit. It can usually be heard, found and seen around dead trees.
Photos of Birds by Common Name by Sid Hamm 