Fairly long, broad, pointed wings with white-gray linings and blue-green patch on secondaries bordered by black. Head is paler than body, dark mark around eye. The crest shows a large white patch when raised; white stripe extends backwards from eye when lowered. Difficult to distinguish from Snowy Egret. When its range overlaps with the Golden-winged Warrbler, it often interbreeds with or displaces it.Willow Flycatcher: Small flycatcher, brown-olive upperparts, white throat contrasting with paler breast, white to pale yellow belly and faint white eye ring. The sexes are similar, but the males are usually larger than females, with a larger bill, head and tarsi.Black Phoebe: Medium flycatcher, mostly black body and white belly. Nests in holes in trees created naturally or excavated by woodpeckers. It wades in shallows and uses its bill to probe and pick up food. Long legs, upper part pink-red, lower part black-gray. It has a light and direct flight with rapid wing beats. Bill is short with orange lower mandible. Feeds on insects and crustaceans. The legs and feet are dark. The White Breasted Nuthatch has a black cap, and a beady black eye on a white face. The wings are white-edged and white tipped; the legs and feet are pink. It is an opportunistic feeder with fish as the primary food source. Strong fast direct flight, often close to the water on rapid wing beats.American White Pelican: Huge, white seabird, enormous outstretched wings show black primaries, outer secondaries in flight. Non-breeding adults have more black on bill, no red-brown or chestnut in plumage, brown-gray back, and brown-gray streaks on crown, face, and breast.Black-winged Stilt: Large, tall, slender wading bird with a long black bill.
Zigzag pattern when flushed. Facial disk is lightly mottled with prominent dark rim. Sexes are similar.Long-billed Curlew: Very large sandpiper with brown mottled upperparts, buff-brown underparts with dark streaks and spots. Juvenile is duller overall with gray-black legs, feet, and bill.Red-kneed Dotterel: Small to medium plover. Yellow eyes, bill is yellow or olive-green. During peak breeding season, bill, legs and irises turn a bright red. The eyebrow is buff-orange in front and white behind eye. The smallest North American swallow. Swift direct flight with rapid wing beats. Juvenile is similar to adult with more brown on head and neck..Kentish Plover: Small shorebird with dark gray legs, short black bill, and white underparts. Flies in a V formation.Little Egret: Medium-sized, all white egret with plumes on head, breast, and back. It has a buoyant, direct flight with deep rapid wing beats. Direct flight.Ringed Kingfisher: Largest kingfisher in the Western Hemisphere. Flight is direct with rapid wing beats. Whatbird.com logo design courtesy of The Haller Company It has a direct flight on quick steady wing beats. Swift, direct flight.Red-breasted Merganser: This medium-sized diving duck has black upperparts, gray sides, rust-brown breast, white belly, green head, double crests and neck, and white neck ring. Yellow legs, feet. Swift direct flight with strong rapid wing beats. Bill is black. It has a white face, black cap, and a thick, straight, yellow bill with a black tip.
Harlequin Duck: Small diving duck, blue-gray upperparts and underparts, rust-brown flanks.
Turns back sharply on insects it passes.Cliff Swallow: Small, stocky swallow, dark blue-gray upperparts, pale orange-brown rump, buff underparts. Seldom fly, rarely leave nesting places.Mute Swan: Aggressive bird, entirely white, orange bill with large black basal knob and naked black lores. Sexes are similar.Fulvous Whistling-Duck: Large, long-legged, long-necked duck with dark brown back and white V-shaped rump patch.
Underparts are white; upper breast is rust-brown and spotted. The black or gray cap and neck frame the face and make it look like this bird is wearing a hood. Swift direct flight on rapid wing beats. Swift direct flight.Baikal Teal: Small dabbling duck, head pattern of pale brown, green, white, and black. Feathered feet and toes provide protection from the arctic cold. Eats insects, caterpillars, seeds and rice.
Long legs are bright orange or red. Rapid direct flight with strong wing beats, flies in V formation.Long-tailed Duck: This small duck has black upperparts, head, neck, breast and wings; brown mottled black back, white flanks, belly, under tail coverts. Flies in a in V formation in migration. Direct flight with steady wing beats.
Upperparts are brown with white markings. It has a direct flight with slow steady wing beats. Black legs, feet.Black-bellied Plover: This medium-sized shorebird has black upperparts vividly marked with a white spot on each feather. Short tail. The face and throat are rust-brown and the bill, legs and feet are black. White line divides green speculum and pale blue shoulder patch on wing. Direct flight on strong deep wing beats, head, neck and feet extend beyond body.Double-crested Cormorant: Medium cormorant with iridescent black body and orange throat pouch. Wings and tail are brown. Medium-length, sharp, black bill with olive-gray base. Adults have a red eye-color, long legs ranging from light to dark pink, and can have a dark terminal tail band.Oriental Plover: Small plover, white head, gray-brown on crown and back, black band separates orange-brown breast from white belly. Tail is white-edged. Juvenile like winter adult but more black on wing and tail with black tip.Cerulean Warbler: The male is sky-blue with faintly streaked upperparts and black-streaked white flanks. Bronze-brown back and wings. Wings have two bold white bars. It has a gray spatula shaped bill and orange legs. Pink breast has dark spots, flanks are gray bordered with vertical white stripes, scapulars are brown, black, and white. Eats small fish, insects and larvae. Agressive towards other water birds. Feeds on algae and aquatic plants, insects and insect larvae. The wings have white shoulder patches and a green speculum visible in flight. Wings with black tips and black bases of primaries. Fast direct flight with rapid wing beats.