The brightly colored male American goldfinch is especially recognizable ... Jet black cap. Black wings with yellow lesser coverts and narrow white tips to greater coverts, forming 2 white wing ...

In Native American culture, totem animals or spirit animals are spiritual ... This mythological creature could create thunder ...

Bill is larger than other American crows, but distinctly smaller than either raven. On rare occasions individuals show white patches in wings. Juvenile: brownish cast to feathers; grayish eye ...