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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three blackbirds are common to the Niagara Frontier during our summers. They are the brown-headed cowbird, the red-winged blackbird and the common grackle. A fourth species, the rusty blackbird, ...

A couple of recent reports have put the midwinter spotlight on the rusty blackbird. This is an unfamiliar species, although it occurs here regularly. Reports have come from near Grafton and near ...

— “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens After days of rain, nights of wind and electricity restored, pale sunlight slowly illuminates the budding trees, the burgeoning lawn.

Blackbirds always seem to get a bad rap. As the late Rodney Dangerfield was fond of saying, they “get no respect” in the bird world. I for one would argue that the blackbirds are an amazing group of ...