#Icterids

[spinus-pinus]

Red-winged Blackbird Agelauius phoeniceus

4/6/2022 Orange County, Florida

[podartists]

Dolichonyx oryzivorus | Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus | Agelaius phoeniceus | Sturnella magna

Plate XXIX | Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (1891)

[uwmspeccoll]

Feathursday Icterids

On this first Feathursday of the New Year, we present four members of the Icterid family of New World blackbirds that are common here in the Upper Midwest. From top to bottom, they are:

Yellow-headed Blackbird  (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) 

Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

Bobolink, male and female (Dolichonyx oryzivorus)

Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta)

This image is from a painting by the German naturalist artist and ornithologist Anton Göring ( 1836-1905), reproduced as a chromolithograph in our 2-volume set of Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty, by the late-19th-century director of the Milwaukee Public Museum Henry Nehrling (1853-1929), and published in Milwaukee by George Brumder (1839-1910) from 1893-1896.

View more posts from Nehrling’s Our Native Birds.

View more Feathursday posts.

[geopsych]

On this day 2 years ago. I had goosebumps standing there. They flew so close to me!

Flock of grackles and maybe some red-winged blackbirds. I love how I could hear their wings at the beginning.

[ravensvalley]

#CommonGrackel

…with all these temperature variations around here, no one can really be sure if it's Spring Season.

But today a small flock of these magnificent Common Grackels has arrived to enjoy the sun with us so, it's official now. We're in!

[tbalderdash-art-blog]

Migratory May Day 10: Common Grackle

Reference photo by Michael O'Brien

[moraymoth]

west shared with @starryelem

[keeskiwi]

trick or treat!

I am just a brown headed cowbird . I'm not a cuckoo but I believe in their beliefs O_O

Why hello there! You are so lovely, may you grow big and strong with all these treats!

Brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) begging from chipping sparrow parent (Spizella passerina) by Kathy Ward, shared under CC BY-NC.

[isame-allen]

Hi Isa! i recently found out that is ship child floating around. Can you draw one, their is a painted wings one i think by unagidevi i like ( ͡^ ͜ʖ ͡^ )

-🌸

Hi Sakura! Yes I can draw them!

[siegecraft]

you can get so much mileage out of naming a character after a bird

[oberon-king-of-the-cherries]

I went on my first date a few weeks ago and while I did not have any strong or sudden feelings about him, I may have to reevaluate that, as he has just sent me—without prompting—fish content. When I texted him back pictures of my shrimp, he very appropriately responded “Shrimps?!”

[spinus-pinus]

Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus

7/25/2023 Valle Escondido Preserve, Costa Rica

[podartists]

Icterus bullockii | Icterus cucullatus nelsoni | Icterus parisorum | Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus

Plate XXXI | Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (1891)

[wigmund]

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)

Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)

American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)

Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius)

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)

Black-and-White Warbler (Mniotilta varia)

American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)

Rose-Breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)

Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)

Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia)

Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

Cute birds appreciation post

[icterid-rubus]

Nearly a year after making it, I’ve just realized I misspelled my Reddit username. It’s driving me up the wall.

[moraymoth]

Why I haven't been very active:

I'm working on two different animations, getting a little bit tired of art while I work on them

I start a project and suddenly I feel like it can't be fixed

So if I stop posting for a little while I'm probably caught up with life

Characters Icterid and West shared with @starryelem