While I was going after the mail the other day, a flock of blackbirds settled into the shelterbelt. Most of them were red wings, as far as I could tell, although I didn't examine every individual bird ...

The rusty blackbird’s scientific name is Euphagus carolinus. The genus name, Euphagus (you-fa-gus) means “good to eat.” While few if any modern-day gourmands would contemplate working blackbirds into ...

https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2010.100148 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/cond.2010.100148 Copy URL Abstract. We used double sampling to estimate densities of ...

Ten rusty blackbirds dropped into our backyard last week. This was not a surprise, exactly, but it wasn't anticipated. Seeing a rusty blackbird can never be anticipated. This is a species on the brink ...

An unusual species showed up in East Grand Forks last week. Not rare, exactly. But probably becoming rare. This was the rusty blackbird. Not just one but three of this migrant dropped into Sandy Aubol ...

Thanksgiving morning, I was up early. Our guests were still asleep and I was done with the morning chores. A pot of fresh coffee had been brewed, a fire was crackling happily in the wood stove (front ...

That's about to change. Rusty blackbirds visit Northeast Ohio's marshes and wet fields in the fall. They're easy to overlook: spots of rust and ebony in a sea of gold, scarlet and burgundy leaves, ...

• At 8 a.m. Saturday, author and ornithologist John Robinson will lead a hike at the Shaker Lakes Nature Center in support of the Great Backyard Bird Count. Robinson has led tours all around the world ...

LANSING - Michigan Audubon is encouraging the public to participate in the Rusty Blackbird Spring Migration Blitz by collecting observations of the birds as they migrate through Michigan, generally ...

The bird that's experienced the steepest population declines in North America in recent decades is also one that few people have heard of: the Rusty Blackbird. Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) ...