Red-winged Blackbird

Description:

A stocky, broad-shouldered blackbird with a slender, conical bill and a medium-length tail. Males are glossy black with red-and-yellow shoulder badges. Females are crisply streaked and dark brownish overall, paler on the breast and often show a whitish eyebrow.

Habitat:

Fresh and saltwater marshes, along watercourses, water hazards on golf courses, and wet roadsides, as well as drier meadows and old fields. In winter, at crop fields, feedlots, and pastures.