Roughly 10 percent of the world’s birds — about a thousand species — are songbirds belong to a group called “nine-primaried oscines,” so named...

While at Flushing Meadows Corona Park near my house in Queens this evening putting my new lens through its paces,* I was entertained by...

Just the mention of the name conjures notions of fear and loathing in some folks, like farmers. Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) Male (click on...

Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is a marvel of modernist poetry. It is only 246 words long, divided into thirteen...

Okay, I meant to write an entertaining post. I honestly did. But I have been sick with different kinds and forms of cold since the...

You may already know about this, but I was not aware that a pure white Blackbird (the thrush, not the icterid) can be found...

It was a dark and stormy night. Turdus “Blacky” Merula sat near the trunk of the small evergreen in the backyard that was his...

Yellow-headed Blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) are robin-sized blackbirds found in prairie and mountain meadow wetlands of the western and central United States and Canada.  They...