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Thick-billed (until recently, McCown's) longspurs are birds of open dry prairies. They breed on the northern Great Plains and winter farther south in Texas and vicinity (rarely to California). Breeding-plumage adult males (most of the birds shown on this page) are distinctively marked with black-and-white faces, black chests, and chestnut 'shoulders'; females and young birds are more sedately marked. Most were photographed in on the Pawnee Grasslands in northeastern Colorado; the winter bird was near Riverside, California. |
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