Tricolored Blackbird

When to see the Tricolored Blackbird

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Tricolored Blackbird

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Tricolored Blackbird

The tricolored blackbird is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae. Its range is limited to the coastal areas of the Pacific coast of North America, from Northern California in the U.S., to upper Baja California in Mexico.

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Easily confused with

Tawny-shouldered BlackbirdAgelaius humeralisThe tawny-shouldered blackbird is 19 to 22 cm (7.5 to 8.7 in) long. Yellow-shouldered BlackbirdAgelaius xanthomusThe yellow-shouldered blackbird, as its name implies, is a glossy black bird with a small yellow humeral patch around its "shoulders" outlined by a white margin. Red-shouldered BlackbirdAgelaius assimilisThe red-shouldered blackbird closely resembles the more numerous and widespread red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), but in contrast to phoeniceus, assimilis males and females are closer in relative size, the female is all-black instead of brown-streaked, and paired birds are monogamous.