🐾 Red-winged Blackbird

Agelaius phoeniceus · wildlife atlas entry

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The red-winged blackbird ( Agelaius phoeniceus ) is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North America and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras, and northwestern Costa Rica. It may winter as far north as Pennsylvania and British Columbia, but northern populations are generally migratory, moving south to Mexico and the... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Record card

Scientific name	Agelaius phoeniceus
Rank	species
Community observations	317,503 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Aves › order Passeriformes › family Icteridae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Red-winged Blackbird photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-05-18 · Erie, PA 16507, USA
(c) Matthew StClair, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Red-winged Blackbird photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Prescott, AZ, USA
(c) John Fausett, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Red-winged Blackbird photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-22 · Osoyoos, BC, Canada
no rights reserved · cc0

Red-winged Blackbird photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Webster, NY, US
(c) Sandy Wolkenberg, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

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