Even brown birds are pretty

when they are hummingbirds.

like this Rufous Hummingbird

or a Mexican endemic

like this Sinaloa Wren.  (Sorry about the back view, it was the clearest of my three photos.

Or striking like this Mottled Owl

Or cute in a utilitarian sort of way

like this hen.  (In the poorer areas of Mazatlan and the small villages outside the city, there are chickens running free everywhere.  Our night in Copala was witness to this.  The roosters crowed all night. (And we had windows [if you can call holes with screens over them windows] in our room that did not close.)