) was scratching through the leaves beneath our Black Gum tree in the back yard. The females are brown, where the males have the black plumage. The common name comes from the call the bird makes, the species name means "red eye".
(Pipilo erythropthalmus) would be well camouflaged if there wasn't snow on the ground.
and Catharus minimus October 2007 I was surprised to see two different kinds of thrushes sharing my birdbath. These birds were migrating.
