Summer male: black, including soft parts ... One of the most abundant birds in North America, the red-winged’s count was estimated at 190 million in the mid-1970s. Populations are stable.

Although most male birds are flashier than their female counterparts, the female eclectus flaunts cherry red plumage and the ... up to $30,000 a bird on the black market. The illegal parrot ...

Birds also eat flowers, fruit berries, nectar and occasionally insects and larvae. Highly nomadic, red-tails spend much of their time searching for stringybark species that have produced a high seed ...