The Red Winged Blackbird

    (red winged blackbird found at wikimedia commons under creative commons)

     The Red Winged Blackbird is a very beautiful bird found on the Southeastern gulf coast. It  is a passerine so it doesn't belong to the same group as the crow, grackle or magpie.
  
     Like the Cardinal, the male takes on the most vibrant features and the female doesn't have such vibrance to their feathers.

     The female is  black striped and has a pretty orange face and moddled with brown. They look as if they don't belong to the same group as the Red  Winged Blackbird.

    The Red Winged Blackbird loves marshy and wetland areas. They eat mussels, mayflies, dragon flies, corn, seeds and worms. They sometimes can be found in hay fields where they eat the seeds from the grain.

    The male is well studded and uses his beauty to be don juan demarcos. He usually mates with 3 to 5 birds through mating season. Eventhough they are passerines, they do play a nuisance with many people. Some people shoot them because of numerous flocks that are noisy and annoying. They do carry  a fungal lung disease that is contagious to people.
That's another reason why they are annoying to have around.