the black-headed ibis has an all-black head with a white body and black legs. These wading birds have long legs, heavy bodies ...

Every year without fail, several emails with accompanying photos come to my attention asking about creatures that look like weird black ... bird, something akin to a lizard's head on a feathered ...

Length 8.3". Adult male: plumage is striking: a cinnamon-colored body including collar, with entirely black head, mostly black back with narrow streaks, black wings with bold white wing bars ...

"All About Birds" indicates it is so boldly patterned it’s been called a 'flying checkerboard,' with an entirely crimson head, a snow-white body, and half white, half inky black wings.

White plumage conceals birds against a backdrop of snow, but for those that roost on mud beside rivers and lakes, as our swans do, black is better. South America has a compromise bird, the ...

A vagrant bird that looks a lot like ... apart from a normal seagull apart from a black smudge on the back of the head," she said. "Two significant white lines on the base of the wings makes ...

What do you get when you combine the broad wings and big body of a raptor ... resemble any other bird in Costa Rica. Three characteristics make it stand out. First, its coloration. It has its namesake ...

This nomadic bird can fly large distances in search of food sources with one white ibis banded in Perth discovered in Papua New Guinea in the 1960s. With an entirely white body and a black featherless ...