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 ...

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 ...

The Rusty Blackbird, is an ubiquitous species that has caught the attention of the Audubon Society. The reason – numbers of the species are plummeting, and causes of the decline are not well ...

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 ...

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) ...

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, ...

And Reago and Chrissy McClarren via Flickr/Creative Commons. We went into the field this week to speak with Carol Foss, Member of the International Rusty Blackbird Working Group and NH Coordinator of ...

In the 20-plus years that I have been working at Wild Birds Unlimited, I cannot think of one occasion where a customer came in asking how to attract more blackbirds to their feeders. People want more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fortunately, wholesale slaughters of songbirds for food ended long ago, but plenty of other threats have arisen. The little-known ...