You didn't say what the rest of the bird looked like, or where you saw it, but here's one possibility: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/Featured_photo/Images/Bigpic/baww2.jpg
It could be a lot of birds. When i hear that discription, i think of a song sparrow or a field sparrow or a house finch.
if it was as big bird with a red bill it was probably a white stork.
It sounds like you are probably talking about the American Goldfinch. They have black feathers on most of their head, yellow bodies, and black and white feathers on their wings.
The most common bird in Connecticut is the sparrow.
A white ibis is mostly white with black wingtips. snowy egrets have white feathers and have black bills/beaks and legs with yellow feet.
The small grey bird with a black and white striped head is called a chickadee.
an ostrich and a peacock have black and white feathers
Perhaps it was a pied wagtail.
White crowned sparrow is the closet relative, but others are the golden crowned sparrow and the Harris' sparrow.
Oystercatcher birds lay white eggs with black speckles. Oystercatchers typically lay between one and four eggs. These birds are known to practice "egg dumping", which is where they lay their eggs in the nest of another bird, leaving the other bird to raise their young.
It could be a lot of birds. When i hear that discription, i think of a song sparrow or a field sparrow or a house finch.
Some species, like the white crowned and white throated migrate, others, like the song sparrow, do not.
The small brown bird with a white stripe on its head is called a White-crowned Sparrow.
If the black is the crown of the head, and you can notice a patch of red under the tail when it takes off, it is a catbird.
A bird is the general category. A sparrow is a bird species.
White Bird with Black Mark was created in 1970.
The black-capped chickadee is the state bird of Massachusetts.