We were walking around Hulls Pond in early January looking for any birds out braving the winter morning. Male red-winged blackbirds had already returned to the pond and were singing. The pond was ...

You could call them “warriors of the wetland.” Or “meanies of the marsh,” even “bullies of the bulrushes.” Or you could call them by their name, red-winged blackbirds. With shiny black feathers and a ...

Judging from his initial results with his new camera, Eric Groshens’ birding photography is taking flight. Groshens’ striking image of a female red-winged blackbird clinging to cattail stalks is the ...

Cold, cruel and unrelenting, February has come and gone. The skating rink that covered our walkway has finally been chipped away. Persephone, the goddess of spring is waiting in the wings, amusing ...

In this episode, The Daily reports on red-winged blackbirds, a territorial species that nests along Lake Michigan’s shoreline and is known for attacking passersby. JONAH ROSENBERG: Picture yourself ...