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For a birder, a sighting of a Tricolored Blackbird is a treat. In these situations, the birds have been treated like pests and targeted for extermination, or lost their eggs and nestlings to harvesting of the fields. All photos by Keiller Kyle, courtesy of Audubon California.
And then there are those startling bright red eyes, which distinguish them from all other blackbirds in my region, and make them look quite capable of peering into your soul and taking over your will. I’m not particularly proud of these photos. But all this changed with the arrival of Europeans, and their cattle.
Cattle Egrets have perfected that smudgy look. Hints of potential warming in the HBW species description: “Date of first egg-laying on Honshu now 7 days earlier than it was 25 years ago” There are also quite a few Cuckoos. A juvenile Chinese Blackbird. She got excited: “Birds with sunglasses!”
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One Oriental Pratincole of them was courageously raising its wings when I unknowingly drove towards its eggs – I reversed, but I am not so sure about the next person using that road … Being yelled at by the chick of an Oriental Pratincole. The birding life. A somewhat older chick. Also available as a set of two.
Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Unicolored Blackbird – Agelasticus cyanopus. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes). 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018.
Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Unicolored Blackbird – Agelasticus cyanopus. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes). 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018.
Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Unicolored Blackbird – Agelasticus cyanopus. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes). 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018.
Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Stormwater Treatment Area 5/6. 13 Jan 2018. Western Australia.
Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Stormwater Treatment Area 5/6. 13 Jan 2018. Western Australia.
Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Stormwater Treatment Area 5/6.
Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Stormwater Treatment Area 5/6.
Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Unicolored Blackbird – Agelasticus cyanopus. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Munuscong WMA (Munuscong Potholes). 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018.
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