These medium-sized, lanky birds have glossy dark feathers ... “The head and parts of the bird’s wing still have brown juvenile feathers, but the black adult feathers have grown in on other ...

Foraging birds are commonly seen on the ground with the tail cocked. Adult male: the glossy black body, with a greenish iridescence, contrasts with a brown head. The eyes are dark; the bill and ...

Dark morph: adult has an all-dark body with dark wing coverts and silvery flight feathers ... giving the bird a dark bib. Juvenile: brown above like adult, but with pale superciliary line on ...

Standing on the edge of the lake, I scanned the distant cottonwood trees with my binoculars looking for the familiar dark ...