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Purple is one of the rarest bird colors in North America, making any bird with a noticeable violet, plum, or purple sheen especially memorable. Some species, such as Purple Gallinules, Purple Martins, and male Varied Buntings, show extensive purple coloration across large areas of the body, while others produce a purple impression through iridescent feathers […]

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Connecticut’s hummingbird community is centered on the Ruby-throated Hummingbird, the state’s only regular breeding species and a familiar summer visitor to gardens, forest edges, parks, and backyard feeders. During fall and winter, it is occasionally joined by western hummingbirds that appear far outside their normal range, with the Rufous Hummingbird being the most regularl...

Alberta supports a small but distinctive group of hummingbirds. Ruby-throated, Rufous, and Calliope Hummingbirds form the core breeding species, each associated with different parts of the province ranging from boreal mixedwood forests and parkland to foothill woodlands and Rocky Mountain meadows. In recent years, several western hummingbirds that were once considered excepti...

North America supports a remarkably diverse group of common birds that people encounter every day across cities, suburbs, forests, wetlands, farmland, deserts, and backyard gardens. Some species are closely tied to human settlements and feeders, while others remain characteristic birds of woodlands, grasslands, coastlines, or open country. This guide highlights many of the bi...

Tennessee supports a diverse group of blue birds found across a wide range of habitats, from open farmland, pastures, and wetlands to rivers, reservoirs, mature deciduous forests, forested mountain slopes, and suburban neighborhoods. These include familiar species such as the “true” bluebirds of the genus Sialia, alongside jays, swallows, buntings, kingfishers, and smaller wo...