Editor's note: This following edition of Nature News is a 2017 column, with 2024 updates, including a reference to our most recent snow storm. An internet outage prevented Susan Pike from writing a ...

Searching for a sign that spring is really, truly on its way? Then keep an ear out for the distinctive call of the red-winged blackbird. This boisterous wetland dweller is one of the first migratory ...

A: Like the answer to the next question, it is not odd, but slightly unusual, although less so every year it seems. Small numbers can be found in the Berkshires along river valleys and sometimes at ...

The song spread is critically important in defense of a territory and the song is also evaluated by females as a facet of courting From the branch above me, a male red-winged blackbird took a deep ...

Birders, including me, can be fickle. In February or March when we hear the first red-winged blackbird of the year sing its distinct three-syllable “On-ka-lee,” we rejoice. The common refrain on ...

QJan. 30, 2022. I’ve seen a red-winged blackbird for the past 4 days feeding on sunflower seeds on my platform feeder. Living on Ashmere Lake, they are frequent spring, summer and fall visitors, but ...