From Opus

Adult Western male
Photo by Marysan

Identification

112-128 cm (7-8 in)
Breeding male

• Orange -yellow head and nape
• Black back, face, throat, and upper breast
• Downward curved bill
• Black wings have two white bars
• Black tail
  

Female

• Olive-grey upperparts
• Yellow-green underparts
  

Juvenile: similar to female; male may show black on throat

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.

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