Examples of red-winged blackbird in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Odds are good to spot a great blue heron and certainly a red-winged blackbird. — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2022 Researchers studying yellow warbler responses to the parasitic cowbird realized that red-winged blackbirds were eavesdropping and reacting too. — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2020 There were two swamp sparrows at Post Farm Marsh in Lenox, a red crossbill at Steepletop Reserve in New Marlborough, 105 red-winged blackbirds at Ashley Falls in Sheffield. — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2020 And what a photo: A solitary red-winged blackbird perches atop a leafless shrub. — John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 July 2019 The results are almost too cute to be real: A red-winged blackbird small enough to serve as a larger predator's breakfast hitches a ride on the back of a bald eagle. — Scottie Andrew And Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 9 July 2019 Walrath is not alone: Park spokeswoman Kelly Barkley says that during mating season, male red-winged blackbirds are fiercely territorial of their nests. — USA TODAY, 5 June 2019 The spokeswoman for the park, Kelly Barkley, said that during the mating season male red-winged blackbirds are fiercely territorial of their nests. — Amber Jayanth, Cincinnati.com, 4 June 2019 Ohio Cincinnati: Just like in the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film, an Ohio woman reports that she was attacked twice in two nights by red-winged blackbirds at Voice of America Park in West Chester. — USA TODAY, 5 June 2019 See More

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