Purple finch. Photo taken at Manhattan, KS. The Purple Finch is the bird that Roger Tory Peterson famously described as a “sparrow dipped in raspberry juice.” Photo by Tom Koerner, and tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service 4/24/17.
A male Northern Cardinal on Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 4/26/17.
A female Northern cardinal on Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 4/24/17.
A Carolina wren returning with food for new hatchlings. Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 4/24/16.
The mallard duck is commonly found on many of our National Wildlife Refuges. Photo by Krista Lundgren/USFWS. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 4/24/17.
A tufted titmouse has just about everything you could ask for in a backyard bird. Petite and strikingly elegant, it’s as perky as a chickadee. In fact, it’s a cousin to the chickadee. And as it comes boldly to your seed or suet feeders, the tufted titmouse will even hang upside down like an acrobat. So what’s in that peculiar name, “titmouse”? The name descends from two ancient Anglo-Saxon root words — “tit,” from a word meaning something small. And “mouse,” from a word applied to any small bird, as well as that little rodent. Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 4/24/17.
