Rusty Blackbird Images

Rusty Blackbird Images, Facts and Information:

Euphagus carolinus

• Rusty Blackbirds are medium sized blackbirds that are black overall with a dull sheen and yellow eyes. Winter males are dull black with rust brown bars. Females are dark gray with faint dark scaling, pale throats and dark eye patches. Winter females are rust brown with dark eye patches.
• Rusty Blackbirds are migratory. Rusty Blackbirds breed from Alaska across northern Canada to southern Canada, northern New York and northern New England. They spend winters from southeastern South Dakota and southern New England south to the Gulf Coast.
• The preferred habitat of Rusty Blackbirds include beaver ponds, wet meadows, shorelines, landfills and roadsides.
• Rusty Blackbirds feed on insects, snails, small fish, grains, seeds, and some small birds.
• Rusty Blackbirds lay 4 to 5 eggs which hatch in 14 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• Rusty Blackbirds are in serious decline, their populations have dropped 85% to 98% in the past 40 years.
• A group of blackbirds can be called a “cloud” or “cluster” of blackbirds.
• Rusty Blackbirds can live to be more than 8 years of age.

I hope you enjoy viewing my Rusty Blackbird photos.