The most distinguishing characteristic of a male yellow-headed blackbird is its bright yellow head and chest, hence its name. “It’s also bigger than a red-winged blackbird,” says Paige Anspach, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most blackbird species in the United States can be found in Texas, making it a fantastic place to see them. In fact, 23 of the 25 ...

The yellow-headed blackbird is a kind of poseur, taking on different roles as circumstances warrant. He can be submissive or aggressive. He can be elegant and patrician. Or he can be raucous and rowdy ...

Idaho has a somewhat surprising 15 species of blackbirds (family Icteridae). There are only 106 species in the family on the entire planet, so that’s not too bad. But five species are accidental ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is that bird? There are some members of the Sierra Foothills Audubon Society that can identify more than 500 different species of birds. I can usually identify about 50 or so. The nice thing is ...