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 ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- An excellent fifty-cent word with which to impress your friends - or, perhaps, to make them roll their eyes - is anthropomorphism, in which we describe animals in human terms or even ...

Anyone living near a wetland knows that the spring peeper is the voice of the night in early spring. It was certainly the champion caller on all three of my Department of Natural Resources frog and ...

Despite being called “blackbirds,” they are all members of the Icteridae family of common songbirds and are frequently vividly colored. They are categorized as New World Blackbirds in North America to ...

A crowd of blackbirds settled into the trees west of Gilby, N.D., last week. They came in waves, not in a single flock. Their noise drowned out the sound of traffic on the county road. There were so ...

Two years ago we read a disquieting statement in the New York Times. The writer recommended: “… go for a walk or a drive while listening to “Slow Radio,” a very soothing BBC podcast featuring sounds ...

As I was driving along the canal taking water from Mud Lake last Saturday, hundreds of Yellow-headed blackbirds flew up from harvesting seeds from a weed patch to land in some willows and along a ...

With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other species. An inhabitant of Iowa marshlands, the yellow-head has a unique and ...