These brown coloured birds are sights to behold. Check out where they are found to see with your very own eyes their splendor colors.
House Wren
The House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) is a familiar backyard bird that occurs from Canada to southernmost South America. It is a small wren that lacks bold or characteristic markings. The House Wren head, nape, and back is almost uniformly brown with its throat and chest a uniform light grey. Fine brown bars appear on its flanks, tail, and wings. It has a long, thin, curved bill. Adults measure 11 to 13 cm (4.3 to 5.1 in) long, with a 15 cm (5.9 in) wingspan and weigh about 10 to 12 g (0.35 to 0.42 oz).
Common Myna
The Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) is a large, stocky starling native to southern Asia. Overall body plumage is chocolate-brown with a glossy black head and bare yellow patch behind the eye. It has a yellow bill and legs. The sexes are similar.
Oriental Turtle-Dove
The Oriental Turtle-Dove (Streptopelia orientalis) is a large, stocky dove that is very common in eastern Asia. Also known as the Rufous Turtle-dove, it has buff-brown overall with the distinctive patch of black and whitish stripes on either side of its neck. Some of the wing feathers having black centres and whitish or reddish edges. Tail is long, grey, and white-tipped. The bill and legs are red.
Black Kite
The Black Kite (Milvus migrans) is a medium-sized long-winged Raptor (birds of prey) with grey-brown upperparts, and faint streaks on grey-brown underparts. The plumage is dark brown, with scattered pale brown and Rufous markings, particularly on the head, neck and underparts. Head is paler than body, dark mark around the eye. The body feathers have dark shafts giving it a streaked appearance. The long tail is slightly forked and barred with darker brown. The sexes are similar. Adults can reach 55-60 cm (21.65-23.62 in) long, with a wingspan of 140-150 cm (55.11-59.05 in) and weigh 630-930 grams.
Hawaiian Owl
The Hawaiian Owl (Asio flammeus sandwichensis) or Pueo is medium-sized owl that is endemic to Hawaii. Its feathered body is streaked with shades of brown and white. It has a big round head with buff facial disk, small ear tufts, and black bill. A dark mask surrounds large, yellow eyes. Full grown adults can reach 33-43.18 cm (13-17 in) in length. Females being slightly larger than the males. The sexes are similar.
Clay-coloured Thrush
The Clay-coloured Thrush (Turdus grayi) is a common bird from eastern Mexico to northern Colombia. Also called Clay-coloured Robin, it is a large thrush with olive-brown upperparts, paler brown underparts and lighter on the flanks. The throat is faintly streaked. The bill is yellow-green and black-tipped. The legs are pinkish and feet are grey-black. It is 23–27 cm (9.1–10.6 in) long, and weighs 74–76 g (2.6–2.7 oz) on average. It is the national bird of Costa Rica.
Brown Noddy
The Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus) is a very rare seabird in the New Zealand region. This medium-sized tern is brown with a white cap, a grey nape and a small white lower half-eye ring. It has a distinctive pale under-wing coverts and narrow, wedge-shaped tail. It has black legs and feet. The sexes are similar.
California Thrasher
The California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum) is a large thrasher found only in chaparral habitat in California and Baja California. It has dark brown upperparts and reddish brown underside. The bird”s main distinguishable feature is its long, thick, down-curved bill. It has a finely streaked face, a dark cheek pattern and eye-line, and has dark eyes. The throat has small buff patch. it has a dark, fan-shaped tail with reddish-brown undertail coverts. It has grey-brown feet and legs. Adults measure about 30 cm (12 in) and nearly 85 g (3.0 oz).
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
The Fulvous Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna bicolor) is a large duck of shallow wetlands, widespread in the tropics of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. It has mainly reddish brown plumage, long neck and dark brown wings with a silver-white stripe on the edges. It has a Rufous-brown crown and upper nape. It has long, bluish gray legs. adults measure 44–51 cm (17.3–20.1 in) in length and weigh 595–964 g (21–34 oz).
Chinese Hwamei
The Chinese Hwamei (Garrulax canorus) is a is a medium-sized songbird of eastern Asia. The plumage is mostly reddish-brown with dark streaks on the crown, back and throat. It has a blue-white eye ring which extends backwards as a white stripe. It has rounded wings, yellow bill, fan-shaped tail, buff-pink legs and feet. Adults measure 21 to 25 cm long. Sexes are similar.
The myna looks really beautiful. Thanks for sharing pictures and information about these lovelies.
These are a lot of species of birds that I haven't seen in the wild. It just amazing looking at the variety of wildlife we have
How very fascinating! When I was a child, Maya was the common bird I would see everyday. They didn't excite me so much because I felt that they were too common. Nowadays, I see different colored birds with different shaped beaks flying around the village or even in my dad's yard. I wish I can identify them, they don't seem to be in this list yet.
What a wonderful species of bird and they looks so beautiful. I felt as if I have not seen many of them.
I love the California Thrasher. I did a project on the bird when I was in middle school. I got really excited when I seen it on your list.
It would be nice to have a pet bird at home especially that Myna. They are like parrots that copy what people say right?
I was captivated by both the first and last bird. I didn't know that's how a chinese Hwamei looked, even though I've heard of it loosely over the years in different dramas and shows
Brown is one of my favorite colors. Good to see all these birds colored brown. However, where is the most common bird we see everyday that is colored brown — our former national bird, the MAYA? 🙂
I think a lot of birds has brown for their more common color. They all look really beautiful here.
Whenever I see brown colored birds, its looks like a native Filipino birds esp those myna and brown owl
Brown makes me think of chocolate haha, this birds might not be sweet or chocolatey but they do look lovely. The House Wren's my favorite from the list.
Fulvous Whistling-Duck is just so adorable. I can imagine it going quack-quack! Some of these brown birds are very captivating to look at 😉
There is beauty in everything, even if they appear monochromatic. Looking at these birds in detail, you will see how attractive and unique they are. I like the Hwamei the best.
The house wren is so cute! Well, not really know about bird, but they are amazing species!
wow I didn't know how beautiful these birds look from this close. Loved this post.