Look for a small yellow bird with black wings, tail and forehead and an orange ... Females are less colorful year-round. The female American goldfinch is duller yellow with patches of drab olive ...

The female is more subtly colored ... A male western tanager is a flashy bird with a bright yellow body, red head, black tail and wings. Its wings have yellow or white bars.

and con­­spic­uous wing bars contrast with black wings (yellow upper bar, lower white bar) and bright red head. Breeding female: duller, mostly green­ish ­yellow below, grayish back and wings ...

The females, on the other hand, are mostly muted shades of grey (though pops of orange-red and black do appear on their bellies and wings). Such differences in coloration between the sexes, called ...

Wings more boldly patterned. Yellow lesser coverts. Wide, whitish lower wing bar. Bill darker than in breeding season. Winter female: mostly drab gray body with black wings and 2 bold buffy wing bars.