How to Find Bobolink?

It's easiest to find Bobolinks if you look for males giving their display flights during spring and early summer. In grassy or overgrown fields and pastures, listen for a long, burbling song punctuated with sharp metallic notes.

Where can I find Bobolink?

You can find these birds foraging all day in large open fields of tall grasses, prairies and meadows, or in freshwater marshes and coastal areas. The Bobolink has the longest migration of all North American songbirds, flying 20,000km from mid-Argentina to mid-Canada.

What is a Bobolink look like?

Breeding male Bobolinks are mostly black with a white back and rump, and a rich buffy nape. Females and nonbreeding males are warm buffy brown, streaked with dark brown on the back and flanks. They have bold brown stripes on the crown but are unstreaked on the nape of the neck. The bill is pinkish.