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 ...

These boldly colored migratory birds spend the colder months in the southern United States and begin returning to Michigan in ...

But as a warming climate shortens Maine's winters, bird species once rarely seen during the colder months now hang around for ...

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 ...

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.

The first week of March came with a roller coaster of emotions.

Keep your eyes and ears open for red-winged blackbirds, sandhill cranes, Canada geese and turkey vultures. These early migrants are already making their appearance after spending the cold winter ...

The male tri­colored blackbird has a thinner ... One of the most abundant birds in North America, the red-winged’s count was estimated at 190 million in the mid-1970s. Populations are stable.