Red-winged Blackbirds at Aurora Arboretum...

Photos by Barry Wallace

Photos by Barry Wallace

Red-winged Blackbird

(Agelaius phoeniceus)

This bird breeds from Alaska to Newfoundland, south to Florida, the Gulf Coast and central Mexico.   After raising two or three broods per  breeding season, these birds gather with other blackbirds in flocks sometimes numbering in the hundreds of thousands, even millions, and have come to be regarded as a health hazard.

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