My Visitor: Red-winged Blackbird
Red–winged Blackbird
The Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras, and northwestern Costa Rica. It may winter as far north as Pennsylvania and British Columbia, but northern populations are generally migratory, moving south to Mexico and the southern United States. Claims have been made that it is the most abundant living land bird in North America, as bird-counting censuses of wintering red-winged blackbirds sometimes show that loose flocks can number in an excess of a million birds per flock and the full number of breeding pairs across North and Central America may exceed 250 million in peak years.
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H.J. Ruiz - Avian101 
I have never seen this bird before, it’s lovely!
Thank you Arbie! 🙂
Magnificent bird, so melodious and elegant, and thrilling to see the large flocks. I like your lettering matching the birds’ wing colors, HJ, made me smile, clever.
Handsome males with striking wing epaulets that appear or disappear on command. Interesting species. Thanks Jet. 🙂
What an unusual bird.
Unusual but numerous. Thank you Susan. 🙂
Very nice pictures of a handsome bird HJ.
Thank you Tom. 🙂
Immagini straordinariamente belle, che hai fermato col tuo magico obiettivo
Un sorriso,silvia
Sono contento che ti piace, cara Silvia. 🙂