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| - | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Hooded Oriole]]'''</div> | + | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Bushtit]]'''</div> |
| - | [[Image:Hooded_Oriole.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Adult Western male<br />Photo by {{user|Marysan|Marysan}}]] | + | [[Image:Bushtit.jpg|thumb|400px|left|Male by {{user|Glen+Tepke|Glen Tepke}}]] |
| | ==Identification== | | ==Identification== |
| - | 18-20 cm (7-8 in), | + | One of [[North America]]'s smallest birds, other than hummingbirds: 4.5 inches (11 cm) in length, nearly half of which is the long, narrow tail. Weight is only 5.3 g<br /> |
| - | *Long [[Topography#Tails|graduated]] tail | + | Eyes are dark in the male, but cream to yellowish in the female.<br /> |
| - | *Long, thin, downward curved bill | + | Coastal birds have brown crowns; interior birds are more gray overall with brown cheeks. Birds from southern [[Texas]] southward sometimes sport black masks. |
| - | '''Breeding male''' | + | |
| - | *Orange-yellow head and nape | + | |
| - | *Black back, face, throat, and upper breast | + | |
| - | *Black wings have two white bars | + | |
| - | *Black tail<br /> | + | |
| | ==Distribution== | | ==Distribution== |
| - | Breeds from central [[California]], [[Nevada]], central [[Arizona]], southern [[New Mexico]], and southern [[Texas]] southward through [[Mexico]] to [[Belize]]. Some of the Mexican breeders seems to have bred already in the same summer in the US before migrating to Mexico for their second round of nesting. | + | Southern [[British Columbia]] and far western [[USA]] through [[Mexico]] to [[Guatemala]]. |
| | + | ==Habitat== |
| | + | Two populations differ in using scrub along the coast, and mainly Oak-Pine woodlands in the mountains. Especially southern populations are limited to mountains. |
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| - | '''[''[[Hooded Oriole|Read More...]]'']''' | + | '''[''[[Bushtit|Read More...]]'']''' |
Revision as of 19:46, 31 July 2012
Identification
One of North America's smallest birds, other than hummingbirds: 4.5 inches (11 cm) in length, nearly half of which is the long, narrow tail. Weight is only 5.3 g
Eyes are dark in the male, but cream to yellowish in the female.
Coastal birds have brown crowns; interior birds are more gray overall with brown cheeks. Birds from southern Texas southward sometimes sport black masks.
Distribution
Southern British Columbia and far western USA through Mexico to Guatemala.
Habitat
Two populations differ in using scrub along the coast, and mainly Oak-Pine woodlands in the mountains. Especially southern populations are limited to mountains.
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