Bird Guide: Land Birds East of the Rockies, from Parrots to Bluebirds

by Chester A. Reed

RUSTY BLACKBIRD

510. Euphagus carolinus. 9½ inches

Male glossy black, female grayish; both sexes in winter with most of the head and breast feathers tipped with rusty. In the United States we know these birds chiefly as emigrants; but a few of them remain to breed in the Northern parts. Their songs are rather squeaky efforts, but still not unmusical. These birds are found east of the Rockies.