Redwing Turdus iliacus

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Redwings mating

***** Location: North America
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

The Redwing (Turdus iliacus)
is a bird in the thrush family Turdidae, native to Europe and Asia, slightly smaller than the related Song Thrush.



This species was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 under its current scientific name.

The English name derives from the bird's red underwing. It is not closely related to
the
Red-winged Blackbird, a North American species sometimes nicknamed "redwing", which is an icterid, not a thrush.
The binomial name derives from the Latin words Turdus, "thrush", and ile "flank".

The Redwing has two subspecies:

T. i. iliacus, the nominate subspecies described by Linnaeus, which breeds in mainland Eurasia.

T. i. coburni described by Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1901, which breeds in Iceland and the Faroe Islands and winters from western Scotland and Ireland south to northern Spain. It is darker overall, and marginally larger than the nominate form.
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orange contrails...
the trilling of redwings
in reeds

George Hawkins
Happy Haiku Forum


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Father's Day --
a red-wing blackbird announces
availability

For those who live in the USA, this bird's courting habits sometime have the bright red shouldered blackbird perched on a marsh's cattail and throat expanded literally seems announcing his presents.

Chibi . Happy Haiku Forum
2008


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photo - Alan D. Wilson, Wiki Commons


fog lifts
red-winged blackbirds
in a field of mustard

- Shared by Jimmy ThePeach
Joys of Japan, March 2012



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