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
Other
Although primarily a marsh bird, the Red-winged Blackbird will nest near virtually any body of water and occasionally breeds in upland pastures. Each pair raises two or three broods a season. building a new nest for each clutch. After the breeding season, the birds gather with other blackbirds in flocks sometimes numbering in the hundreds of thousands, or even millions, and have come to be viewed as a health hazard.
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