Blackbirds, Orioles, & Allies

Look For Adult male great-tailed grackle is a large, glossy black bird and long black keel-shaped tail, for which it […]

Look For This big, dark bird is like a common grackle with a tail extension. Males are dark bluish green

Look For Adult male is orange and black with an orange crown and black face and throat. The “hood” on

Look For Adult male is bright orange below with an orange face, black throat and crown, and black eye line.

Look For Male bobolinks go through a dramatic plumage change from spring to fall. In summer, the male is a

Look For The smallest oriole in North America is also the darkest, with a designer color scheme of chestnut and

Look For Baltimore orioles are slightly smaller and more slender than American robins. Look for a thin, sharp, silver, gray,

The yellow-headed blackbird is a real stunner in the plumage department. The male is the only North American bird with

The rusty blackbird is primarily a bird of the wet woodlands and swamps of the East, migrating north and/or westward

Look For The conk-a-ree call of the male red-winged blackbird fills the air over marshes and fields all across North

Look For An adult male is all black with a pale eye. Plumage can appear glossy purple and green in

Look For A familiar bird of rural farm fields, meadows, and grasslands, the eastern meadowlark is known by its distinctive