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This is the fifth in a series of posts on birds at risk in Canada. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) lists 73 bird species as endangered, threatened or of special concern.

Male rusty blackbird in breeding plumage. Listed as a species of Special Concern in Canada.

It seems inconceivable that a member of the blackbird family could be listed on any conservation list. After all, some of the most noticeable and numerous birds on the continent are red-winged blackbirds, grackles and brown-headed cowbirds – all members of the Blackbird family.

But the rusty blackbird is different. While the Canadian population is estimated to be between 110,400 and 1.4 million, their population has declined a whopping 85 percent since the mid-1960’s.

The COSEWIC status reports states:

Reason for Designation: More than 70% of the breeding range of the species is in Canada’s boreal forest. The species has experienced a severe decline that appears to be ongoing, albeit at a slower rate. There is no evidence to suggest that this trend will be reversed. Known threats occur primarily on their winter range, and include wetland loss, urban development and blackbird control programs in the United States. Designated Special Concern in April 2006.

Rusty blackbirds breed north to the treeline, further north than any other member of the blackbird family. They eat mostly invertebrates during the breeding season, taken by probing in mud and vegetation. Their arboreal nests are often re-used by other species such as Solitary Sandpipers.

The breeding habitat of these birds consists of forest wetlands, such as the streams, peat bogs, marshes, swamps and beaver ponds of the boreal forest. In winter, they are found primarily in damp woodlands and cultivated fields of the mid to eastern United States and southern Canada.

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