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Kern National Wildlife Refuge
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Nelson Lake Forest Preserve
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Garfield Park
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Garfield Park
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Parque Nacional del Manu
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A Yellow-headed Blackbird sits in bulrush at sunset. This bird was part of a large flock of Yellow-headed and Red-winged Blackbirds. 24 February 2008.
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California, USA
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Here's that gurgling song that everyone associates with wetlands. This one is in Peck's Lake [Arizona] in mid-March, staking his claim on a prime piece of marshy real estate. Listen for his "chacks" and whistles between the loud calls.
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Candlestick Park
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Necedah NWR
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Chapada dos Guimaraes
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Lake Merced
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Parque Nacional del Manu
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Brown-headed Cowbirds. Young males in late summer molt. 6 August 2010
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California, USA
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This unusual "piping" by a male Red-winged Blackbird was directed at an interloping male. The calls were actually about 5 seconds apart, but I took out some silence in the interest of bandwidth here. I'd not heard this call used to warn another male before, but the intruder got the point and soon left the area.
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Garfield Park
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Bluestem Prairie
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Glen Canyon Park
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Lake Merced
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Cana Station
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A fledgling Red-winged Blackbird clings to cattails as its mother forages and then returns to feed its siblings in the nest. At the artificial wetland of the National Museum of the American Indian. 5 June 2010.
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Chile
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Another group songfest - this time from a "Lek" of 25 or so Red-wings in the morning. I'm not sure this is a true Lek, but the ingredients are all there - lots of males (2/3 of those in attendance are male) singing with lots of females listening, and since it's in the Spring (2/16/99) and in the morning, it seems like Lek behavior. Note the silence midway through the sample - sudden and almost orchestrated - something distracted them for a moment.