Rusty Blackbird Identification - All About Birds
Rusty Blackbird is thinner-billed and shorter-tailed than Common Grackle. In winter, male Rusty Blackbirds are recognized by their rusty feather edges, pale yellow eye and buffy eyebrow. Females are gray-brown; they also have rusty feather edges, pale eyes and a bold eyebrow, contrasting with darker feathers right around the eye.
Rusty blackbird - Wikipedia
The rusty blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) is a medium-sized New World blackbird, closely related to grackles ("rusty grackle" is an older name for the species).
Rusty Blackbird | Audubon Field Guide
Birders might say that this blackbird is rusty because it spends so much time in the water. In migration and winter it is usually in swampy places, wading in very shallow water at the edges of wooded streams. In summer it retires to northern spruce bogs; no other blackbird has such a northerly breeding distribution.
Rusty Blackbird Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of ...
They are relatively uncommon denizens of wooded swamps, breeding in the boreal forest and wintering in the eastern U.S. In winter, they travel in small flocks and are identified by their distinctive rusty featheredges and pallid yellow eyes.
Rusty Blackbird - eBird
Thinner bill than Red-winged Blackbird. Found in wooded swamps. Often in flocks; frequently mixes with Red-winged Blackbirds and Common Grackle in winter. Look for flocks perched at tops of trees bordering marshes and listen for their calls to help pick them out from large flocks of blackbirds. Learn more about Rusty Blackbird from…
Rusty Blackbird - American Bird Conservancy
In 40 years, the once-common Rusty Blackbird lost between 85 and 95 percent of its population, making it one of the fastest declining North American landbirds. The only North American blackbird more troubled is the Tricolored Blackbird, a localized and declining bird of …
Rusty Blackbird
The Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) is a widespread North American species that has shown chronic long-term and acute short-term population declines, based both on breeding season and wintering ground surveys.
Rusty Blackbird Life History - All About Birds
Rusty Blackbird is one of North America’s most rapidly declining species. The population has plunged an estimated 85-99 percent over the past forty years and scientists are completely puzzled as to what is the cause.
Rusty Blackbird "Euphagus carolinus" | Boreal Songbird Initiative
Blackbirds in general are among North America's most familiar – and least appreciated – birds, but the Rusty Blackbird is the "white sheep" of the family. It is without doubt the least well known, due to its relatively low numbers, remote breeding range, and minimal pest status.
Rusty Blackbird – Species Information
Rusty Blackbirds, or “Rusties,” get their name from their fall and early winter plumage, when their dark feathers are edged with a rusty brown color. In the spring and summer, males are a glossy black and females a silvery, slate grey.