Yellow Headed Blackbird

by Cindy Murphy - NightVisions

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Yellow Headed Blackbird

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Cindy Murphy - NightVisions

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Caught this one by itself. The male Yellow-headed Blackbird is impressive to see, but not to hear: it may have the worst song of any North American bird, a hoarse, harsh scraping. Yellow-heads nest in noisy colonies in big cattail marshes of the west and midwest; when not nesting, they gather in flocks in open fields, often with other blackbirds. At some favored points in the southwest in winter, they may be seen in flocks of thousands. bird16 7303

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July 27th, 2016

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