Adult male © Jonathan Eckerson eBird S56977526 Macaulay Library ML 174390361
Female © Mason Maron
Female © Jeff Bleam
Male © Jared Keyes
Male © Joshua Glant
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Adult male © Matthew Pendleton
Female © Shawn Billerman
Habitat © Todd Hagedorn

Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus

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Identification

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Breeding males are glossy black with purplish head and greenish sheen on body. Nonbreeding males have pale eyebrows and staring yellow eye. Females are plain dark brown and typically have dark eyes. Forages by walking on ground. Sometimes in mixed flocks with other blackbirds at feedlots. Also, walks along parking lots, golf courses, or roadsides. Females similar to Brown-headed Cowbird, but with longer, thinner bill and longer tail than cowbird.

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