Celebrating 2025 Working Lands for Tricolored Blackbirds

When nesting Tricolored Blackbirds select a triticale subject on one of many San Joaquin Valley’s working dairy farms, Audubon reveals up. And this 12 months, when one adventurous flock broke their traditional sample and settled right into a blooming mustard cowl crop on an Italian vegetable farm, we were there, too. Since 2014, we’ve traversed the valley to guard each breeding colony we will discover, teaming up with farmers and companions to maintain nests secure in the course of busy working lands. This season, we superior our work to guard these nomadic birds and higher perceive their motion patterns by tagging them with telemetry gadgets and including Motus stations throughout the landscapes they depend on, letting us comply with their journeys with higher precision and opening a complete new window into the lifetime of this near-endemic, state-threatened species.