This bird had brown wings, a speckled chest, and a patch of red feathers on its throat not unlike that of a rose-breasted grosbeak. “I was very confused and perplexed,” says Gosser ...

It is very similar to the tree sparrow, missing only the black spot in the middle of the breast. By far, the most regular brown bird on our feeder is the female house finch. The male has a pink ...

This winter is bringing a wide variety of birds ... brown-and-black woodpecker with a large white rump patch that is easy to see when the flicker flies away. In addition to the speckled chest ...

The rainbow of hues seen in modern bird eggs probably evolved in birds' dinosaur ancestors, which had eggs with colorful and speckled shells ... two pigments—a red-brown one and a blue-green ...

speckled and spotted eggs boasting exquisite hues of blue and brown, scientists said on Thursday, in a discovery that scrambles the notion that such exceptional traits originated with birds.

are heavily speckled with dark markings. These eggs are so well camouflaged that you might not see them even after flushing the brooding bird and looking at the spot from which it flew.

which had eggs with colorful and speckled shells. That’s according to a new study of fossil eggs in the journal Nature. Researchers found that birds’ close dinosaur relatives had eggs with traces of ...