Yellow-eyed Blackbird

Its natural habitat is swamps.

The Yellow-eyed Blackbird is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

just a yellow-eyed blackbird on the sill, feathers fraying in the snowy wind. Karen Head is the author of Sassing (WordTech Press, 2009), My Paris Year (All Nations Press, 2009) and Shadow Boxes (All Nations Press, 2003). Her poetry has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies. More

was not the yellow-eyed blackbird so common to western ranches and corrals. They could be seen scavenging around the feed buckets, wings slightly drooping, looking for oats and other grain. The raven was well over twice the size of a blackbird. Its eyes were the same midnight black as its beak and plumage. The raven’s talons released their hold and it sidestepped on the post until it faced Nick’s window. More