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[-] artwork@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Holy gracious smokes... Such a marvelous work...
The bird and the tail... the composition with the branch going upright in faith... the colors... the background unites with light so miraculously...
The very top of the work is another kind of abstract art already...
Thank you, dear Author and Nature... Ineffably magnificent... no words...

Great picture and great bird. These dapper fellows are all over the place where I live, though I didn't know they were quite this abundant:

The red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae 
found in most of North America and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and 
Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Guatemala, with isolated 
populations in western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras, and northwestern Costa 
Rica. It may winter as far north as Pennsylvania and British Columbia, but northern 
populations are generally migratory, moving south to Mexico and the Southern United States.  

Claims have been made that it is the most abundant living land bird in North America, 
as bird-counting censuses of wintering red-winged blackbirds sometimes show that 
loose flocks can number in excess of a million birds per flock and the full number of 
breeding pairs across North and Central America may exceed 250 million in peak years.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-winged_blackbird

[-] jon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

They look great but, aside from canadian geese, are some of the most aggressive birds I've come across. Once while running on a regularly used pavement path one came and attacked my head. Another time on a different way more well used walking path over a marsh I was repeatedly dive bombed and screamed at to the point I yelled back, "I'M ALLOWED HERE TOO!" Which of course did nothing to help.

[-] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

An iconic bird around my parts. Another interesting Icterid indeed.

[-] MacFearrs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago
[-] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Ages ago I was walking on a nature trail and saw one of these. "I wonder what this black bird with red wings is called", I said to myself. So I read the plaque that listed common wildlife and I was upset to learn it's called a red-winged blackbird.

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