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The ubiquitous red-winged blackbird is common throughout much of North America. Birds in the west tend to lack
the yellowish border on their red wing patches found on many red-wings. I took most of these photos in springtime, in patches of wild mustard and a tule marsh at the San Jacinto Wildlife Area near Riverside,
California -- a habitat they share with the closely-related and very similar tricolored blackbird. The camouflage-colored females were photographed nearby; with difficulty they can be distinguised from female tricolored blackbirds by reddish-brown shades on the 'shoulders'.
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