B. Meanley 1966 <p> Most observers usually associate the Red-winged Blackbird (<i>Agelaius phoeniceus</i>) with open country such as marshes or upland fields and their wooded or brushy borders. On the wintering grounds in the coniferous belt of the southeastern United States, however, Red-wings spend some of their time feeding in pine forests. In the course of a day's feeding they move back and forth between pine woods and harvested fields of corn, peanuts, and cotton, or weed fields. It is not unusual to see Red-wings feeding in a scattering of pine trees at the edge of a marsh or in some upland area, but I was surprised to find them in dense stands of pine and to observe their method of feeding there. </p> application/pdf 10.2307/4083067 en American Ornithological Society Red-winged blackbirds searching beneath pine bark for insects in winter article