A female produces one or two broods per year ... “Researchers have observed baby blackbirds swimming until they can get to a nearby cattail or structure and clamber out of the water,” says ...
The blackbirds should be showing up any day now. I’m on the lookout. When the blackbirds are back in town it means spring is coming. Or at least the blackbirds seem to think so. I watch for them every ...
As winter loosens its grip, red-winged blackbirds, chickadees and migrating geese signal the arrival of spring, while ...
Female grackles construct the nest ... Discover interesting facts about red winged blackbirds.
A summer rusty blackbird is similar ... but tertials are always entirely black. The female Brewer’s is darker and browner, with dull green gloss on the wings, than the female rusty, which ...
Signs of the coming of spring are appearing everywhere. So far, I’ve seen robins, red-winged blackbirds, killdeers, herring gulls, grackles, great-blue herons, geese, chipmunks, geese and others.
Female: well streaked throughout ... The male tri­colored blackbird has a thinner, more pointed bill, a white epaulet border, colder gray-buff upperpart markings in winter, and a different ...