Roughly 10 percent of the world’s birds — about a thousand species — are songbirds belong to a group...

While at Flushing Meadows Corona Park near my house in Queens this evening putting my new lens through its...

Just the mention of the name conjures notions of fear and loathing in some folks, like farmers. Red-winged Blackbird...

Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is a marvel of modernist poetry. It is only 246...

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

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

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

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