This species is one of the most widely distributed, abundant, well-known, and well-named birds in North America. Polytypic. Length 8.7". Usually sits in an obvious place or is found in flocks ...

Polytypic (the 2 North American subspecies are poorly differentiated; the coastal birds have shorter wings, smaller bills, and a tawnier supercilium than the interior birds). Length 8.3 ...

They’re a kind of velvety green, with an orange Mohican and a black eyestripe below a white supercilium (posh word, means ‘eyebrow’). They look a bit grumpy.