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Brewer's Blackbird
[Euphagus cyanocephalus]
[Length 9 in. Wingspan 15.5 in.]
Brewer's Blackbirds breed throughout most of the western US, across the northern US as far east as the Great Lakes, and in southwestern Canada.
In winter they withdraw from the northern portions of their range and settle into Mexico and across the southern US.
Males are distinguished from other blackbirds by their yellow eyes (although the Rusty Blackbird also has yellow eyes) and glossy greenish body and purplish head, and from grackles by their shorter "blackbird" bills and tails.
This male Brewer's Blackbird was photographed at Arapaho NWR in Walden, Colorado, USA.
Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm ED f4.5 lens on Kodachrome 200 film.
(Date: June 1992)
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