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 ...

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.

Carolus Linneaus, a Swedish scientist, gave the red-winged blackbird its scientific name, Agelaius phoenicus, in 1766. The ...

In February and March, male red-wings travel north from their southern wintering grounds and find good spots for nesting and ...

I was hearing a red-winged blackbird but seeing a common grackle. Which was fine. If I wasn’t excessively comfortable with cognitive dissonance I wouldn’t be able to get out of […] ...

Bob Burns spotted this red-winged blackbird near Tuna Cross Road in Foster Township. One of the first migratory species to ...