Red-winged blackbirds vexed me when I first started birding. Not the males. They’re easy. They have that sleek all-black ...

When migrating, red-winged blackbirds fly only in daylight, which S.K. says may help them locate stopover habitats, stay with ...

While sitting on my back porch one day during late afternoon, my leisurely pursuit was interrupted as a large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location.

Mixed-species flocks of blackbirds and starlings estimated to number in the millions have been sighted for decades. A 1964 flock of red-winged blackbirds spotted in Arkansas was estimated to ...

A red winged blackbird. So, how do we tell the difference ... Furthermore, there are times when a large flock of black-looking birds can be a mixture of Starlings and Brown-headed Cowbirds and ...

Red-winged blackbirds have been steadily arriving with ... They will also often flock in groups with other blackbird species. Starlings and cowbirds are other species that have learned to keep ...

An omen of impending disaster? The start of a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film “The Birds”? Those were the thoughts that crossed some people’s minds when they ...