Toledo Pit, aka the Toledo Basin Tricolored Blackbird enhancement

Authors

  • ­Debra Schlafman U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Author
  • David Hardt Kern and Pixley National Wildlife Refuge Complex Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.64555/kxxadw50

Abstract

Toledo Pit is a storage basin owned by the Lower Tule Irrigation District in Tulare County, California. The Irrigation District allowed cattails (Typhus spp.) to flourish in Toledo Pit and, as a result, Tricolored Blackbirds (Agelaius tricolor) have successfully nested in the habitat.

A male Tricolored Blackbird perches on a reed, beak open

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Published

2004-07-15

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2-3 (2004): Central Valley Bird Club Bulletin

Section

Notes from the Field