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The next time you walk out of a grocery store to find your freshly waxed car spotted with white blobs of bird poop and curse the glossy obsidian-hued birds nesting on a power line above your head, I ...

Failing that, perhaps we could find some regal Houston designation for the grackle. Consider this excerpt from B.C. Robison’s “Birds of Houston”: “Common grackles assemble in flocks in open areas such ...

Grackles have been prancing around my lawn this week showing off their iridescence as they search for grubs and other fodder. The grackles are large, black, conspicuous – and almost always unwelcome ...

This week’s featured creature may be one of the most commonly seen birds, as nearly every Walmart parking lot is populated with them. The great-tailed grackle is quite common, and you’ve almost ...

The CEO of a Broward pest-control company is defending an employee who is accused of wrongfully poisoning federally protected birds that were leaving droppings outside a Weston restaurant. The ...

While many species are undergoing drastic declines in their numbers and geographic ranges, other species seem to be thriving. Researchers investigating the great-tailed grackle, a bird that has been ...