Red winged blackbird
Description
7-9 1/2" (18-24cm). Smaller then a robin. Male black with bright red shoulder patches . Female and young heavily streaked with dusky brown.
Voice
 A rich, musical o-ka-leee!
Habitat
Marshes,swamps,and wet and dry meadows;pastures.
Nesting
 3-5 pale blue eggs,spotted and scrawled with dark brown and purple. Nest is a well-made cup of marsh grass or reeds attached to growing marsh vegetation or built in a bush in a marsh
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