Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

   Photos by BarrytheBirder

The Red-winged Blackbird is common species of wet fields, meadows, and marshes.  The Audubon Handbook of Eastern Birds says "Males quite conspicuous, with jet-black plumage and fiery red shoulders frequently flared in territorial display" (see photo above).   It is highly gregarious in winter  and is often found in open fields with other species of blackbirds.

It breeds from central Alaska east to southern Newfoundland and south throughout the U.S.A.    It  breeds from central Alaska east to southern Newfoundland and south throughout the U.S.A., and winters from southern British Columbia and south New England southward.

                                                                                         Female

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BarrytheBirder