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 ...

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 ...

With its bright golden mantle and jet-black body, it would be hard to mistake the yellow-headed blackbird for any other species. An inhabitant of Iowa marshlands, the yellow-head has a unique and ...

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 ...

A habitat improvement project that will help protect wildlife like the endangered yellow-headed blackbird began Thursday at Pingree Grove Forest Preserve in Hampshire. The long-planned wetland scrape ...

Despite being called “blackbirds,” they are all members of the Icteridae family of common songbirds and are frequently vividly colored. They are categorized as New World Blackbirds in North America to ...

Anyone living near a wetland knows that the spring peeper is the voice of the night in early spring. It was certainly the champion caller on all three of my Department of Natural Resources frog and ...

Blackbirds tend to get overlooked because they are, well, black. We prefer species with more color – red, orange, yellow, blue and green (if you can find that color outside the tropics). And if you ...

A crowd of blackbirds settled into the trees west of Gilby, N.D., last week. They came in waves, not in a single flock. Their noise drowned out the sound of traffic on the county road. There were so ...