Size: 9 inches
Overall Color: grayish black
Occurrence: near water
Diet: insects, seeds
Nest: mud cup
Field Identification: yellow eye, long tail
Season: winter

Brewer's blackbird (male)
Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Phylum: Chordata (hollow nerve cord)
Subphylum: Vertebrata (backbone)
Class: Aves (Birds)
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Icteridae (icterids)
Genus: Euphagus
species: cyanocephalus