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

The other real benefit of such shrubs in gardens for Blackbirds is that their relatively dense nature makes them ideal nesting sites.’ blackbirds are an important part of any ecosystem - which ...

While its big breeding colonies make the species seem abundant to casual observers, the blackbird's gregarious nesting behavior renders these colonies vulnerable to large-scale failures. In ...

Nesting takes place in native emergent marshes, silage and other grain fields, thickets of the introduced Himalayan blackberry, and other flooded and upland habitats. RANGE: The historical breeding ...

The young also have the strength in their wings and feet to swim, should they fall out of the nest and into water. “Researchers have observed baby blackbirds swimming until they can get to a ...