RFW Bird-watching Resources

Brewer’s Blackbird

(Euphagus cyanocephalus)

Family: Icteridae
Common Family Grouping:
Icterids: Blackbirds, Orioles and their Allies
4-Letter Species Code: brbl
Size: Medium

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Female   Costilla
Photo by: Bob Friedrichs

Adult Male   Rio Arriba County

Adult Male   RFW Corridor
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Brewer’s Blackbird


Season - Abundance Status:
Migrant Summer Breeder - Uncommon

Link to USGS Site with more information: USGS

Hear sounds of Brewer’s Blackbird at xeno-canto.org

Range data provided by Infonatura/Natureserve. Ridgely, R. S., T. F. Alnutt, T. Brooks, D. K. McNicol, D. W. Mehlman, B. E. Young, and J. R. Zook. 2005 Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 2.1 NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA

eBird and CBC Graphs created with Google Charts: https://developers.google.com/chart

Data for CBC Graph: National Audubon Society (2020). The Christmas Bird Count Historical Results Online. Available http://www.christmasbirdcount.org November, 2020

Data for eBird Graph: eBird. 2021. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org. (Accessed: January 7, 2021).