Learn what a yellow-headed blackbird looks like and where to find this bird. Also discover facts about their sounds, nests, diet and more.

In this episode, The Daily reports on red-winged blackbirds, a territorial species that nests along Lake Michigan’s shoreline ...

What is a female red-winged blackbird looking for in a mate? Her top criterion is a good nesting territory. If she approves of his landscape, then she'll give a male a second look.

Around this time of year, male red-winged blackbirds are at the peak of their beauty - and their aggressiveness. Just ask anyone who's been divebombed by a protective feathered father. Males fluff ...

The male red-winged blackbirds have the aggressive reputation and are known to dive bomb humans and other predators such as crows and hawks.

The Red-Winged Blackbirds have returned. Can you identify them in your backyard? The female looks quite different from the male. This video shows the female Red-Winged Blackbird above, and the ...

If you'd like to avoid a dive bomb from an angry red-winged blackbird or a peck at your head, it's best to avoid walking near their nests.

Red-winged blackbirds appeared in my neighborhood marsh almost a month ago. These were mostly males, who arrive early to establish territory, perching in the cattails, on telephone wires and ...

We were walking around Hulls Pond in early January looking for any birds out braving the winter morning. Male red-winged blackbirds had already returned to the pond and were singing.

Red-winged blackbirds return to the Chicago region in late February or early March. Males, like this one, arrive a few weeks before the brownish females. Courtesy of Christian Goers ...

The red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus, is an icterid, related to many other handsome birds: grackles, cowbirds, meadowlarks, orioles and bobolinks, all of which migrate south for the winter.

Yes! Red-winged blackbirds are somewhere near the house … At the feeders? In the treetops? Perched in the budding forsythia near the patio? When the sun finally inches above the eastern horizon and ...