As late summer temperatures drop into the cooler days and nights of fall and winter, your local birds will change their ...

There’s safety in numbers.

If hundreds of blackbirds suddenly gather in your trees, there’s likely a fascinating reason why. Here’s what this unusual ...

Carolus Linneaus, a Swedish scientist, gave the red-winged blackbird its scientific name, Agelaius phoenicus, in 1766. The ...

Blackbirds tend to get overlooked because they are, well, black. We prefer species with more color – red, orange, yellow, blue and green (if you can find that color outside the tropics). And if you ...

The Common Blackbird has the most beautiful voice in the aviary kingdom, new research into the relationship between human hearing and birdsongs found. The findings indicated the Common Blackbird’s ...

I’m guessing the tricolored blackbird is one of the most overlooked species in Idaho. There’s no doubt it’s rare, as are any number of other species. But tricolors are so similar to their close ...