KINGFISHERS: Large-headed birds with bushy crests and stout, spear-shaped bills. Perch or hover over water, then dive to capture fish.
•KINGLETS: Very small, slender-billed birds; olive-green with a brigh crown patch. Often flick tails; forage rapidly in foliage, hover, and hang upside down.
•LARKS: Streaked birds with slender bills and white outer tail feathers. Walk or run on ground, flush when disturbed; have bounding flight, and usually fly in bunches.
LONG-LEGGED WADERS: Pigeon-sized to very large wading birds with long necks and long legs. Herons, egrets, and bitterns fly with neck folded over back; others fly with neck extended.
•LONGSPURS: Sparrow-sized birds with short, conical bills.Walk on ground; flush when
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disturbed. Fly in bunches, with bounding flight and simultaneous banking.
LOONS: Goose-sized or very large water birds with stout, spear-shaped bills and very short tails. Dive from water surface; often swim with body low. Fly in a beeline, with long neck extended.
•MAGPIES: Black-and-white birds with stout bills and long, pointed tails. Walk on ground.
•MEADOWLARKS: Brown, open-country birds with long, pointed tails. Walk on ground and flush when disturbed.
NIGHTJARS: Slender aerial birds, with large heads, that perch in horizontal posture and catch insects at night or dusk. Flight mothlike (true nightjars) or loose-winged and erratic (nighthawks). Clad in "dead-leaf" patterns; flush from ground.
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