When Tanner’s Cornell dissertation was published as The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in 1942, the book included two pictures of the juvenile bird perched on Kuhn’s arm and head. Those frames ...

Catherine Cruz reports on the sihek, an endangered bird that recently returned to the wild and laid eggs at their new Pacific island home, Palmyra Atoll.

Markings on underparts are less distinct on rufous morph birds. Juvenile: similar to adult in coloration, but indistinctly barred light and dark on head, mantle, and underparts; ear tufts not yet ...

Eye is distinctly orange-­yellow. Juvenile: recently fledged birds have less distinct spotting than do adults, and their bills are significantly shorter and less decurved. Adults distinctive ...