Native trees and flowers in your garden will bring in more birds than ever before. Learn which native plants are best for ...

However, their broad, fan-shaped tails set them apart. Their heads are flat, not rounded like boat-tailed grackles. These ...

Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities ... Audubon Society strives to connect people to the natural world, focusing on birds ...

Early accounts of the owl in California described it as one of the state's most common birds. In the late 1860s, according to one ornithologist, “burrowing owls stood on every little knoll” around San ...

This common desert woodpecker ... known to hybridize at a few localities in southern California. Polytypic (about 8 ssp. in North and Middle America; birds north of Mexico are cactophilus).