The white-browed wagtail is a widespread resident with a black head, black mantle and white supercilium. A typical ground bird that wags its tail up and down. Black winged stilt is a long-legged ...

Valerie Sinex, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited in Yorba Linda, noticed a recent increase in customer sightings of exotic black and white birds with exceptionally long tails and bright red-orange bills.

Grand Strand residents may have seen little black-and-white birds turning up in the Myrtle Beach area and along the coast. They’re not penguins but dovekies. There have been at least 15 dovekies ...

Prominent black crescent framing lower edge of auricular. On perched bird, wing patch shows only as a thin white line along the leading edge of the folded wing.

These plump, black-and-white birds have made themselves at home in the canals of central Amsterdam. There, they have become expert recyclers, building their nests out of human trash.

As Pirenne and Crombie have pointed out above, scattered light can, in the long ranges at which aircraft are spotted, have an effect on contrast which is not present at short ranges, but ...