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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. These pictures show males displaying to each other and to potential mates in breeding colongies 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'.
Flocks of red-winged blackbirds are on this page; other pictures of males and females are here.
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