Brewer’s Blackbird Images, Facts and Information:
Euphagus cyanocephalus
- Brewer’s Blackbirds are small, long-legged blackbirds with long tails, rounded heads and long bills.
- Brewer’s Blackbird males have yellow eyes, glossy black plumage with iridescent metallic blues, purples and greens. Females are brown with dark eyes.
- Brewer’s Blackbirds are social birds that nest in colonies of up to 100 birds. The females pick the nest location and build the nests.
- Brewer’s Blackbirds lay 3 to 7 eggs which hatch in 12 to 14 days. The female incubates.
- Their main diet includes seeds and grains and they will eat insects when they are plentiful. They will pick insects off of the backs of large mammals. They are also opportunistic feeders and in urban areas they will take whatever food they find from fast food parking lots, cafes and parks.
- The range of Brewer’s Blackbirds has expended eastward because of human created changes.
- A group of Brewer’s Blackbirds is called a “keg”.
- Brewer’s Blackbirds can live up to 13 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Brewer’s Blackbird photos.
Brewer’s Blackbird female and frosted grasses
Title: Brewer’s Blackbird female and frosted grasses
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/16/2023
Female Brewer’s Blackbird on frosty grass
Title: Female Brewer’s Blackbird on frosty grass
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/16/2023
Male Brewer’s Blackbird head on portrait
Title: Male Brewer’s Blackbird head on portrait
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/16/2023
Male Brewer’s Blackbird displaying portrait
Title: Male Brewer’s Blackbird displaying portrait
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/16/2023
Adult male Brewer’s Blackbird looking at his feet
Title: Adult male Brewer’s Blackbird looking at his feet
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2022
Adult Brewer’s Blackbird male checking out his feet
Title: Adult Brewer’s Blackbird male checking out his feet
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2022
Brewer’s Blackbird male on an interpretive sign
Title: Brewer’s Blackbird male on an interpretive sign
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2022
Staring male Brewer’s Blackbird
Title: Staring male Brewer’s Blackbird
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2022
Autumn Brewer’s Blackbird male on a sign
Title: Autumn Brewer’s Blackbird male on a sign
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/30/2022
Brewer’s Blackbird male high in the Wasatch Mountains
Title: Brewer’s Blackbird male high in the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/15/2022
Male Brewer’s Blackbird after a bath in an alpine creek
Title: Male Brewer’s Blackbird after a bath in an alpine creek
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/15/2022
Male Brewer’s Blackbird shaking off after a bath
Title: Male Brewer’s Blackbird shaking off after a bath
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/15/2022
Male Brewer’s Blackbird and his iridescent feathers
Title: Male Brewer’s Blackbird and his iridescent feathers
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/28/2020
Brewer’s Blackbird close up
Title: Brewer’s Blackbird close up
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/11/2019
Autumn Brewer’s Blackbird male
Title: Autumn Brewer’s Blackbird male
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/24/2019
Male Brewer’s Blackbird looking at his feet
Title: Male Brewer’s Blackbird looking at his feet
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/30/2018
Male Brewer’s Blackbird plus the colors of fall
Title: Male Brewer’s Blackbird plus the colors of fall
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/30/2018
Brewer’s Blackbird checking out a fence post
Title: Brewer’s Blackbird checking out a fence post
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/30/2018
Shaking male Brewer’s Blackbird in Davis County
Title: Shaking male Brewer’s Blackbird in Davis County
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/24/2018
Male Brewer’s Blackbird shaking his feathers on an old fence post
Title: Male Brewer’s Blackbird shaking his feathers on an old fence post
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/24/2018