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 ...

Monotypic. Length 9". A summer rusty blackbird is similar, but it has a more slender pointed bill. The male Brewer’s is more strongly glossy, showing blue on head and green on body. In winter ...

Get to know eight types of orioles seen throughout the U.S. and what makes each of these orange and yellow birds stand out.

A male blackbird followed us, dipping and swooping and giving a constant chook of alarm. We stopped at the tangle of hawthorn branches and last year's weeds and the blackie settled in the rowan tree.

The male red-winged blackbird’s trill is a classic sound of the wetlands in Kamloops and the Okanagan every spring, and is part of an attempt to attract a female. The song takes one second and starts ...

Red-winged blackbirds are one of the most widespread ... from brown-striped juvenile plumage to the black of the adult male. Visible clues include the very sharply pointed beak, pale eyebrow ...