Photo from Flickr, Richard Crook

The Eastern Meadowlark is a stocky, medium sized blackbird with a short tail. It has a darker brown patterned wings and upper parts with yellow lower parts and dark streaks around the side. Listen to the call of this Meadowlark in this week’s Tweet of the Week!

Each week we introduce a new bird from the Ottawa-Gatineau area through our segment on CBC Radio’s In Town and Out. Alex MacDonald, Nature Canada’s Manager of Protected Areas, shares interesting facts about the birds that live in our communities. Be sure to tune-in to “Bird Tweet of the Week” on CBC Radio One 91.5 FM on Saturday mornings from 6am to 9am and listen to past episodes on our website.

This episode aired on Saturday July 2nd, 2016.

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