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    Yellow-Headed Blackbirds By the 100's
    Vicki Wilmarth
    • Dec 13, 2019

    Yellow-Headed Blackbirds By the 100's

    While huge flocks of blackbirds are not uncommon, particularly in agricultural settings, I was startled in early October 2019 by more than 1500 blackbirds with one thing in common--yellow heads. When I first saw this huge flock of blackbirds (a "murmuration" in birding terminology), I just assumed that they were our common red-winged blackbirds. The birds were flying away from me, so I took a few pics and watched them twist and turn like a school of fish evading a shark. Then
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