BIRDS OF SMITHVILLE

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Our Texas State Bird is a medium-sized slender songbird with a long tail. Adults are grayish above and whitish below with two white wingbars.

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Blue above and white below, with a prominent crest and a bold black necklace. The wings and tail are barred with black, and it has a bold white wingbar.

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Males are brilliant red with a black mask and throat. Females are pale brown overall with warm reddish tinges in the wings, tail and crest.

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It is a chunky full-breasted bird with a round head and a stout bill. Breeding males have gray crowns, white cheeks, a black bib and a chestnut neck.

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Gray above with large black spots on the wing coverts with pale peach coloring below. It has a long thin tail, thin black bill and pinkish legs.

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A medium-sized dove with a small head and short, square-tipped tail. It is brown overall with a large white patch on the inner wing.

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A small, slender dove with a small head and narrow, long tail. Pale sandy gray overall with dark feather tips creating a scaled appearance.

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A large, long-legged and flat-headed falcon, with a black body and cap with a white neck and cheeks, yellow legs and bare orangish skin around the face.

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A medium-sized black and white barred woodpecker with a pale belly. Males have a red crown and nape, females have a red nape, lacking the red crown.

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Small with a short bill. Upper parts mostly black with a white back and bold white spots in the wings. Head is striped black and white with a red nape.

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A slender shorebird with long wings and tail. Adults have 2 black breast bands. They habitually pause while walking to bob their heads up and down.

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A medium-sized hawk with slim body and fairly long tail. Adults have extensively reddish brown underparts. Tail and flight feathers are banded black and white.

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Fairly large, with dark eyes and a yellow bill. Buff-colored below with dark streaks, and brown on the back with white mottling.

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A small, somewhat stocky bird with a big dark eye and a crest. Is grayish above and white below with a peach wash on the sides.

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It’s chunky and blackbird-sized, but with a short tail and a long slender yellow bill. Breeding birds are dark overall with purplish-green iridescence.

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Large with broad wings, a short tail and a small head. Almost entirely black with a dark gray unfeathered head and silvery patches on the underside of the wings.

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Large and black with a browner back, naked bright red head, and pale bill and legs. Soars with wings raised slightly and rarely flaps.

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A tiny bird with a short neck and large head, giving it a distinctive spherical body shape. Start white cheeks contrast with black cap and throat.

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Large, lanky blackbirds with long legs, a long tail and a long and heavy bill. Adult males appear dark overall, but have an iridescent bluish head.

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A long-legged, slender blackbird with a long V-shaped tail, a flat-headed profile, and a stout bill. Males are iridescent black with piercing yellow eyes.

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The Mississippi Kite is a slender fairly small raptor with a pale head, dark eye patch, narrow pointed dark gray wings and a long square-tipped tail.

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A long-necked duck with a red bill and long pink legs. Its body is mostly chestnut, with a black belly, gray face, and a white patch on the wings.

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Very large and tall, with a long neck. Grayish-blue over all with a pale belly and dark streak on the neck, with a long orangish-yellow bill.

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A long, slim bird with a long tail and long yellow bill. Brownish above and white below, rusty patches in the wing, and black tail with large white spots.

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Tiny, with long wings and bill. Dusky below with a emerald green back and bright red throat. The throat is iridescent and can look black or red.

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A large fly-catch with a peaked crown and bright yellow belly. The underside of the tail has a broad rusty stripe down the middle.

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A large swallow with a slightly hooked bill and long, tapered wings. Adult males are iridescent, dark blue-purple overall with brown-black wings and tail.

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It has broad shoulders that taper to long, pointed wings. Adult males have a steely blue back, wings and tail, with rusty throat and forehead.

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A small swallow with broad pointed wings, a small head and a square tail. They build their mud nests on the walls of cliff ledges and under bridges.

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It has a black mask and prominent crest with peachy brown head and chest, pale yellow belly, and yellow tip to dark tail. Sometimes wings have red tips.

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A large hefty flycatcher with a thick bill, a pale gray head, whitish throat, a bright yellow belly and white edging on the outer tail feathers.

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Small with slender tube-shaped body and very long, narrow curved wings. Dark gray-brown overall with a slightly paler throat.