PASSERIFORMES
Icteridae
1. Brewer's blackbird
2. yellow-headed blackbird
3. boat-tailed grackle
4. Greater Antillean grackle
5. red-winged blackbird
6. Epaulet oriole
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yellow-rumped cacique, Itacaré, Bahia, Brazil, 2008.
Again as said before in other places, this is not a great photo but the best I have of this species to date. |
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Brewer's blackbird, Safford, Arizona, 2007.
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Boat-tailed
grackle (Quiscalus
major).
First picture: Male
at Gulfstream Park, Aventura, FL, USA.
Second and third picture: Male
and female, University of Miami campus, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
Last picture: Male
at Metro Zoo, Kendall, FL.
Photography
has a way of revealing beauty in ways that are not available using
other methods. Before becoming interested in photography, I
was not at all interested in grackles. They were noisy and
rather ugly birds I grew up with in Arizona. Now I think that
they are so beautiful and love to take pictures of them, especially
males singing.
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Epaulet oriole, Avare, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2008.
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yellow-headed blackbirds flocking in
Safford, Arizona,
2007. When I was young, I remember huge flocks of red-winged and
yellow-headed blackbirds in the fields. I had not seen any large flocks
of yellow-headed blackbirds like those I saw when I was a kid until I
saw this one.
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Greater Antillean grackle (Quiscalus niger),
University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR.
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Red-winged
blackbird female, Bahia Honda, Florida Everglades, FL, USA. 2007.
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