Yellow-crowned night-herons are most often confused with wading birds like the closely related ... This is because juveniles are brown with white streaks. While they're not currently listed ...

Have you been hearing new birds ... sparrows have prominent white bands alternating with black on their heads, while golden-crowned sparrows have, unsurprisingly, yellow patches on their head.

White-crowned sparrows that breed along the Pacific Coast tend to have yellow bills and duller white head stripes and birds that breed from Alaska to Hudson Bay tend to have orange bills and white ...

Its tinier relative the golden-crowned kinglet was common, as was our hardiest warbler, the yellow-rumped warbler ... the stripes black and white. Duller first-year birds were also present ...