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The Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) is a ground feeding Icterid that, within an urban setting, likes open country such as parks and golf courses. This bird will also come to back yard bird feeders and baths. We often get some through our yard for a few days each spring and fall, perhaps mixed in with Common Grackles or Rusty Blackbirds. They're a noisy bunch, and kind of fun to watch. But I'm sure we would get tired of them quickly if they didn't move on, since they and their chums tend to drive out everything else, except perhaps for the intrepid Red-breasted Nuthatches that frequent our feeders.

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Note: Originally I had misidentified this bird as a Common Grackle. Thanks to Richard Klauke for an email catching my error and pointing out the tail length and beak size as distinguishing features between the two species. The Grackle also is a larger bird, but overall size is tough to judge from the photo below.

I photographed this Brewer's Blackbird while on a business trip to the Denver area (actually, Englewood), August 9, 2002. There wasn't much else around the hotel grounds, so I watched a few of these birds poke around some shrubs near a small artificial pond.

The grass is this green only because of constant watering. Other patches of lawn I saw on this trip were a dead, burnt-out looking brown due to the drought conditions in Denver.

EXIF 2.2 photo info:

 

  • 320 x 377 true color
  • Exposure time: 1/925.90
  • F-stop: 7.4
  • ISO speed: 400
  • Focal length: 61.5000
  • Exposure mode: Auto
  • White balance: Auto
  • Exposure bias: 0.0000
  • Metering mode: Pattern
  • Exposure program: Normal
  • Gain control: Low gain up
  • Contrast: Normal
  • Saturation: Normal
  • Sharpness: Normal
  • Camera make: NIKON
  • Camera model: E5700

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