Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird‘s feathers is the result of pigment, not a trick of the light. These birds’ emerald green, lime green, chartreuse, or ...

To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator ...

A few days ago, my husband said that there was a green bird at the old hummer feeder. I went to look and there was a small (canary size, about 4 inches) greenish bird.

Parrotlets are small but fearless. Their mighty behavior earned them the nickname “pocket parrot”. The birds are very smart and can get into trouble when they’re unsupervised out of their cage.

A few days ago, my husband said that there was a green bird at the old hummer feeder. I went to look and there was a small (canary size, about 4 inches) greenish bird.

The striking yellow-green bird some folks may mistake for a goldfinch is probably a pine warbler. ... Another common visitor to suet feeders is the small, olive-gray ruby-crowned kinglet.

Adult: small; yellow eyes; bill yellow-green at the base with a paler tip. Ear tufts are prominent if raised; when flattened the bird has a round-headed look. Facial disk is prominently rimmed ...

Catch the movement of a bird in a woodland canopy, a fallow field or at the summer feeder and chances are good that its identity can be told by the presence of yellow in its dress — either ov… ...