sexually dimorphic

Photographing Nesting Williamson’s Sapsuckers

By Mia McPherson|April 6th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Clark County, Idaho, Targhee National Forest, Williamson's Sapsuckers|Tags: adult, alpine forest, aspen, challenges, characteristics, fecal sac, female, flight, flying, forest, male, mountains, nest cavity, nest hole, nest tree, nesting cavity, nesting season, nesting tree, ornithological history, photographing, sapsucker, sapsuckers, sawdust, sexually dimorphic, Williamson's Sapsucker, woodpecker, woodpeckers|

For one and a half wonderful nesting seasons I was thrilled to photograph a pair of mated Williamson's Sapsuckers excavating a nest and tending to their young.

Juvenile Red-winged Blackbird Male Diving Towards The Ground

By Mia McPherson|October 19th, 2017|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Red-winged Blackbirds, Utah|Tags: Agelaius phoeniceus, blackbird, blackbirds, diving, first year, hatch year bird, immature, juvenile, male, Red-winged Blackbird, sexually dimorphic, sunflowers|

The plumage of male juvenile Red-winged Blackbirds is highly variable during their first year, some of the young blackbirds can look like females and some can look more like adult males.