Cattails (Typha latifolia) are the iconic freshwater wetland plant. Where there is fresh water and some sun, there will be ...

The red-winged blackbird, at home in cattail vegetation of Minnesota’s bountiful wetlands, lakes and rivers, is a welcome ...

Red-winged blackbirds are one of the most widespread ... observed baby blackbirds swimming until they can get to a nearby cattail or structure and clamber out of the water,” says S.K. Juveniles ...

QUASQUETON — Just sitting here on Monday, the second day of daylight savings time, watching the steam rise off my maple sap ...

A Ross’s goose has landed in Great Barrington for all to take a gander at. Then, on March 1, I awake to the sound of red-winged blackbirds, twee-ing and twee-ing as they greet the dawn. Yes! Red-wings ...

I soon realized that cattails could make just as compelling a "start of spring" topic as the red-winged blackbirds. Cattails on the edge of a pond in North Berwick, Maine. Seeds escaping a cattail.

Males show black median coverts, so the red epaulet lacks a yellow border. The male tri­colored blackbird has a thinner ... birds in North America, the red-winged’s count was estimated at ...