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Blackbirds

25 Bird Species

Altamira Oriole

The U.S. range of this oriole, the largest of North American, is restricted to southern. Adults are mostly bright orange with black wings, back, tail, throat, and lores; the median wing coverts are orange and and the greater coverts are tipped with white creating a single white wingbar. Sexes are sim more...

Length: 25 cm Wingspan: 35 cm

Audubon's Oriole

Greenish yellow and black overall, with black head and throat, black wings, and long black tail. Back and underparts are yellow. Scott's Oriole has more black on the breast and back; other male orioles are orange. Sexes are similar. more...

Length: 24 cm Wingspan: 30 cm

Baltimore Oriole

Common in eastern North America, the male Baltimore Oriole is distinctive and showy, with a black hood, back, wings, and tail; bright orange underparts; and orange and white wing coverts. Females and immatures are more drab yellow to yellow-orange overall, brightest on the breast, without any black o more...

Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 29 cm

Black-vented Oriole

Adult has clean black head, throat, back, wings, undertail coverts, and tail. Underparts are yellow, with a narrow orange border between the black throat and yellow belly. Immature is pale yellow overall with a black throat. Accidental in the U.S. more...

Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 35 cm

Boat-tailed Grackle

Male appears black from a distance. Overall length about the same as a crow, but body is much smaller and slimmer and the tail accounts for about half of the total length. When seen from close range, shows dark blue-green iridescent overall, with bluish sheen on head. Has pale eye, and a long graduat more...

Length: 42 cm Wingspan: 58 cm

Bobolink

Male Bobolinks in alternate plumage are unique and easily recognized. Basic males and females resemble sparrows, but are distinguished by their large stocky build, long pointed wings, sharply pointed tail feathers, and pink legs. Bobolinks have a very long claw on the hind toe. Alternate Male: Black, more...

Length: 16 cm Wingspan: 26 cm

Brewer's Blackbird

Males in alternate plumage are iridescent black, with a purplish sheen on the head and breast, greenish gloss on back, wings, and tail, pale whitish eye, medium-length tail, and thin, pointy bill. Basic plumaged males generally lack glossiness and have pale brown in the throat and supercilium. Irides more...

Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 39 cm

Bronzed Cowbird

Male is stocky, all dark, with glossy wings and tail, thick neck, heavy bill, and red eye. Females are duller, varying from gray to black, darker in eastern populations. Juvenile is grayish brown, lacks red eye, and has diffuse streaks underneath. Head and bill are larger than those of more widesprea more...

Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 36 cm

Brown-headed Cowbird

Though superficially similar to other North American blackbirds, this species can be recognized by its smaller size, shorter more conical bill and shorter tail. Males have a glossy black body and dark chestnut-brown head, with a somewhat conical, stubby bill. Females are tan brown overall, with a dar more...

Length: 19 cm Wingspan: 31 cm

Bullock's Oriole

Adult male Bullock's is unmistakable and flashy; entirely bright orange below and mostly black above. A broad white patch on the wing coverts stands out against mostly black wings and back. The mostly orange face combined with a black crown, throat and line through the eye creates a head pattern tha more...

Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 30 cm

Common Grackle

Larger than blackbirds, with a noticeably graduated tail, heavy bill, and pale eye. Male is entirely glossy black; at close range, iridescence is bluish on head and neck, with bronze or multicolored sheen on rest of body. Female is similar but has reduced iridescence on body and slightly smaller tail more...

Length: 32 cm Wingspan: 43 cm

Eastern Meadowlark

Brownish and cryptically patterned above, bright yellow below, with a bold black V on breast and striped head. In flight, note white outer tail feathers. In basic plumage, yellow underparts are duller than alternate plumage. Sexes are similar. Best distinguished from Western Meadowlark by range and v more...

Length: 24 cm Wingspan: 36 cm

Great-tailed Grackle

Crow-sized in total length with a much thinner body and narrower wings; tail accounts for about half of the length. Bill is fairly heavy and long. Adult male is entirely glossy black, with dark blue sheen on head and body, a pale eye, and very long, obviously graduated tail. Females are grayish brown more...

Length: 46 cm Wingspan: 58 cm

Hooded Oriole

Long-tailed compared to other orioles, with a long, decurved bill. Adult male is flaming orange with black wings, tail, back, face, and throat; wing coverts form a white patch on the shoulder. Young males are pale yellow instead of orange. Females are dull yellow with gray wings and tail, lack black more...

Length: 20 cm Wingspan: 27 cm

Orchard Oriole

Smaller than other orioles with a fairly straight, short bill. Adult male is deep chestnut-orange below with black head, throat, back, and tail; black wings have an chestnut-orange shoulder patch with white-edged flight feathers and white tips on greater coverts, which create a single wingbar. Young more...

Length: 18 cm Wingspan: 24 cm

Red-winged Blackbird

Male is familiar and distinctive throughout North America, all black with an obvious red shoulder patch bordered by pale yellow. Females are patterned entirely in brown, buff, and warm rufous tones, heavily streaked underneath, scalloped on the back, and often misidentified as sparrows or finches; no more...

Length: 22 cm Wingspan: 33 cm

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