Birds in the News This past week there have been news reports of thousands of Blackbirds falling from the sky – dead. Here are four news stories of the spectacle. Click the links below to go directly to the news article. Bizarre reports of dead Blackbirds enliven a…
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. Quotation by Wallace Stevens credit + large image The Tricolored Blackbird The Tricolored or Tricoloured Blackbird, Agelaius tricolor, is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae. The Tricolored Blackbird…
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. A Joseph Addison Quotation Red-winged Blackbird Large view + credit The Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of…
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie… An old nursery rhyme Large view + credit Rusty Blackbirds Some information on the Rusty Blackbird. Sing a Song of Sixpence Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,…
