Returning Red-winged Blackbird

From Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife & Fish Refuge:


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Red-winged black birds are beginning to return! Males come back first to establish their territories in the wetlands. The loud trilling calls you hear in the spring are their mating calls; "pick me, pick me!"

Photo: Red-winged blackbird by Dave Menke/USFWS. 




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