WordsOnBirds columnist JeffReiter says red-winged blackbirds are a perfectly named harbinger of spring in Illinois
Sometimes I like to nerd out on a specific bird. The challenge is to learn something new, and I always do.
Author Pete Dunne said it best:"For much or all of the year, most of us are never far from a red-winged blackbird." Some redwings get physical, approaching from behind and making light contact with their feet. Getting bopped on the head is startling, but seldom bloody. The red patches have a yellowish edge at the base. A thin buffy wing bar is often the only color visible on a male, such as during a foraging trip inside another male's territory. This species can be inconspicuous when it needs to be.
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