Red-winged blackbirds are one of the most widespread ... S.K. completed a PhD in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Program for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology.

The red-winged blackbird, at home in cattail vegetation of Minnesota’s bountiful wetlands, lakes and rivers, is a welcome ...

A Ross’s goose has landed in Great Barrington for all to take a gander at. Then, on March 1, I awake to the sound of red-winged blackbirds, twee-ing and twee-ing as they greet the dawn. Yes! Red-wings ...

Males show black median coverts, so the red epaulet lacks a yellow border. The male tri­colored blackbird has a thinner, more pointed bill, a white epaulet border, colder gray-buff upperpart ...