Black And White Striped Bird With Red Head The lark sparrow is a small bird with distinctive head markings with white or pale brown stripe on the crown bordered by chestnut brown.
Black and white striped bird with red head Head has dark gray cap and sharply contrasting white eyebrow and cheek stripe.
Black and white striped bird with red head. The throat is black and has a white face stripe above the eye. It has black wings that are checkered with white a black back with a large white stripe running down it and a black head with two white stripes. The adult male has a black head wings and upperparts and a bright rose red patch on its breast. Long round tipped tail is edged with white.
Red headed woodpeckers whether male or female look alike wearing tuxedo like plumage with all red heads from throat completely over the head and down the back of the head to the base of the neck. Note spotting on white outer tail feathers. Medium sparrow gray brown upperparts white underparts black bib. The wings have white patches and rose red linings.
While easy to identify at a glance thanks to its crest and bright coloring don t miss the stunning pattern of black white and blue on the wings. The adult female has dark grey upperparts a white stripe over the eye streaked underparts and yellowish wing linings. Head striped black and white with a red nape. Small with a short bill.
Young red headed woodpeckers molt from gray black heads to all red heads. White below upperparts mostly black with a white back and bold white spots in the wings. With a long tail short thick bill and prominent red crest the northern cardinal is a fairly large bird. In the course of the molt their heads look splotchy see photo at right and their wing tips are not yet fully white.
The vibrant feathers of a blue jay are magnificent no doubt but even more impressive are the microscopic keratin particles throughout each feather that scatter light producing the cooler colors seen on these and other birds. The stripe headed sparrow peucaea ruficauda is an american sparrow which breeds from pacific coastal south western mexico including the transverse ranges cordillera neovolcanica to pacific coastal northern costa rica. The bird is actually completely red head included except for one small black section over their face that resembles a mask. They re adept at catching insects in the air and they eat lots of acorns and beech nuts often hiding away extra food in tree crevices for.