•NUTHATCHES: Stocky, short-necked birds with long, pointed bills and short tails. Scramble up or down trees in search of insects.
•ORIOLES: Black and orange or black and yellow birds that forage slowly in trees, sometimes feed at flowers.
OWLS: Stocky, mainly nocturnal birds of prey with vertical posture; large, rounded heads, often with ear tufts. Most have camouflage colors. A few hunt during the day.
PELICANS: Very large water birds with huge bills. Fly in formations with neck folded; soar, flap, and coast, with slow wingbeats.
PIGEONS AND DOVES: Small headed birds with fan-shaped or pointed tails. Walk on ground; fly very fast in beeline, with rapid wingbeats; often fly in bunches, sometimes with simultaneous banking.
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•PIPITS: Sparrow-sized, streaked birds with short, slender bills and white outer tail feathers, usually seen in open country or alpine tundra. Walk or run on ground, flush, and often fly in bunches.
RAILS: Brown-streaked marsh birds with small head; bill long and slim or chickenlike; wings short, broad, and rounded; tail very short. Walk, run, or wade; probe in mud; flush from grass and fly with rapid wingbeats.
RAPTORS: Hook-billed, predatory birds, often with vertical posture. Head naked in vultures. Most raptors have long, broad, rounded wings, but wings narrow and pointed in falcons and some kites; tail usually fan-shaped or long and rounded.Often soar or flap and coast, some with wings in dihedral.
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