noun
or red-winged blackbird
: a bird ( Agelaius phoeniceus ) of the family Icteridae which is widely distributed in No. America, breeds in swampy places, and collects in the fall in large flocks for migration and whose adult male is black with a patch of bright scarlet bordered behind with white or buff on the wing coverts while the female and the young of both sexes are brown with dusky streaks — called also maizebird, maizer