Butler's Birds

I treated myself this Labor Day with a trip to the Desert Botanical Gardens in southeast Phoenix, and it was a most satisfying trip to con...

The Ladder-Backed Woodpecker is one of those unfortunate birds that must work very hard to distinguish himself from other similar or more re...

When in their full-plumage, these are very fine looking birds that wear their otherwise dull colors of brown, gray, black, and white very we...

This and the Cordilleran were once considered the same species and identified only as the Western Flycatcher, but the Cordilleran has a diff...

I've seen these little yellow warblers all around the Phoenix area now. For a while, I was misidentifying them as juvenile or female Yel...

Without a male around, it can be difficult to tell the species of a female hummingbird. Their green backs and grayish bellies/chin are prett...

The Cactus Wren is the largest wren in North America, and is also the emblematic state bird of Arizona. Although they are comfortable living...

Also known as a Quarion or a Weiro, this is the smallest of the Australian cockatoos, but is the second most popular avian household pet be...

Thrashers get their name from the jerky, side-to-side head movement with which they turn over loose top soil and dig for seeds, bugs, etc. w...