Leaves – similar to yellow birch (B. alleghaniensis), but secondary ... ring-necked pheasant, purple finch, rose-breasted grosbeak, and downy woodpeckers. Eastern hophornbeam is particularly prone to ...

Adult: small; yellow eyes; bill yellow-green at the ... nearly identical in appearance and habits to the Eastern gray morph birds. Where their ranges overlap, the two species are best identified ...

The orbital ring is a dull yellow. Presently considered monotypic; however, there have been two subspecies described: americanus in eastern North America and occidentalis in the Southwest.