Torontonians beware: red-winged blackbirds are in mating season and swooping left and right

Moris Metyas is familiar, by now, with the attack pattern of the red-winged blackbird.

“They stand in the tree, watching left and right, like a thief,” said Metyas, who has been attacked several times this year, working delivery for a pharmacy on Queens Quay West, opposite the Toronto Music Garden.

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A red-winged blackbird at Corktown Common near the Distillery District, one of several areas where dive-bombings have been reported.

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