Both are small black-and-white birds with red on their heads, and both love to visit suet feeders. Eventually, you’ll learn to look for the shorter beak on downy woodpeckers, ...

The small birds are known to be incredibly territorial along marshy areas, ... Red-winged black birds ‘dive-bomb’ runners, walkers.

The small birds also are known for the size of their clutches, which can include up to a dozen eggs. That’s hard work for such a tiny bird, but the female only has one brood a year, so I guess ...

People often ask me, “I saw a black bird with red on the wings — what is it?” Well, that would be — coincidentally — the red-winged blackbird. The blackbirds and orioles are a diverse ...