Red-winged Blackbird
by Lisa Manifold
Title
Red-winged Blackbird
Artist
Lisa Manifold
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Red-winged Blackbird
The males have scarlet-and-yellow shoulder patches they can puff up or hide depending on how confident they're feeling. Females build their nests by winding stringy plant material around several close, upright stems and weaving in a platform of coarse, wet vegetation. Around and over this she adds more wet leaves and decayed wood, plastering the inside with mud to make a cup. Finally, she lines the cup with fine, dry grasses. One nest picked apart by a naturalist in the 1930s had been made by weaving together 34 strips of willow bark and 142 cattail leaves, some 2 feet long.
Photo taken at the Loblolly Marsh Nature Preserve, Indiana, USA
[Red-winged Black Bird_16x20_300 DPI_Loblolly Indiana_25 JUN 2020_1257]
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July 6th, 2020
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