Rusty Blackbird Breeding Range
Breeding Range
The majority of the breeding grounds for the Rusty Blackbird are out of the range of most U.S. citizens, for Canada hosts the very large percentage of this birds breeding range. There are a few members of these blackbirds that do breed in the northern New England states, however. The states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and, New York are states in the USA where those small numbers of Rusty Blackbirds will breed.
In the north the breeding range extends to the limits of the tree line across North America. According to Frederick C. Lincoln (1935), he said that “in the Stikine River Valley of northern British Columbia and southwestern Alaska” that several eastern species have extended their breeding ranges to within twenty to a hundred miles of the Pacific Ocean and that the Rusty Blackbird is one of those species.
When on its breeding grounds there seems to be a decided preference for water for the Rusty Blackbird. It seems that wherever there is water, be it a lake shore, a pond, a little stream or other wet terrain, the bird will settle. They like wet wooded areas. Often you’ll find them in difficult to inaccessible areas like swamps or bogs.
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