Black Birds With Blue Heads

Several black-colored birds have blue heads, including blackbirds, grackles, and starlings. The blue color of their feathers is a structural color that isn’t produced by the birds naturally. Instead, the heads of these birds appear blue when light falls on them, thanks to the Tyndall effect.

List of Black Birds With Blue Heads

• Asian Fairy-bluebird
• Black Grouse
• Black Oropendola
• Black-throated Blue Warbler
• Blue-black Grassquit
• Blue-black Grosbeak
• Blue-black Kingfisher
• Blue-necked Tanager
• Boat-tailed Grackle
• Brewer’s Blackbird
• Brown Sicklebill
• Common Grackle
• Common Starling
• Greater Antillean Grackle
• Great-tailed Grackle
• Indigo Bunting
• Jamaican Blackbird 
• Melodious Blackbird 
• Montezuma Oropendola 
• Purple Martin
• Purple Sunbird
• Rook
• Rusty Blackbird 
• Satin Bowerbird
• Scrub Blackbird 
• Shining Honeycreeper
• Shiny Cowbird
• Southern Cassowary
• Superb Fairywren
• Tree Swallow
• Velvet-fronted Grackle