Meet 5 types of blackbirds you should know. Red-winged blackbirds are one of the most widespread birds in North America. This ...

A perch-hunter of the forest understory, it feeds on frogs, snakes, lizards, and small mammals ... but red-shouldered shows 3 bands on the folded secondaries; broad-winged lacks the pale crescent ...

A lot of birds are shifting their range in response to warmer temperatures. That means bird watchers are seeing new species in their yards.

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.