With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other species.

Bright yel­­low underparts, yel­low rump, black back, and con­­spic­uous wing bars contrast with black wings (yellow upper bar, lower white bar) and bright red head.

I’m a notoriously bad birder; I constantly misidentify birds that I should be familiar with. This happens with particular frequency when American goldfinch show up in their winter plumage.

With its bright yellow feathers and distinctive black stripe, the bird's plumage was reminiscent of Uma Thurman's iconic track suit in Kill Bill: Volume One, and soon it earned the nickname the ...

My grandmother reveled at the sight of bright yellow birds with black caps that attended the zinnias in her garden each summer. Wild canaries, she called them. Birds: Goldfinches readily drawn to ...

They’re prized for their striking plumage—white body, black wings, and a band of bare, bright yellow skin behind the eyes—and for their beautiful songs full of varied trills, whistles ...