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Rusty blackbirds are scarce in California; they breed in boreal and Arctic regions and winter in the southeastern United States. Populations apparently are in rapid decline, for unknown reasons. This vagrant female -- or possibly a juvenile male -- was photographed on a tiny stream in the desert near Thousand Palms, in the Coachella Valley of southern California. |
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