Female American Redstart

Females are gray & yellow. Males are black & orange. Redstarts use the trick of flashing their colors by rapidly fanning out the tailfeathers. Supposedly this startles insects and flushes them out of vegetation so the birds can more easily catch them.

Female American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)

Garland, Tx

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