These medium-sized, lanky birds have glossy dark feathers. Their heads look blue or purple in the light, in contrast to their bronzed iridescent bodies. In some parts of the southeast, their bodies ...

Grackles either have the most annoying vocalizations or the most beautiful, depending on your perspective. Even the female grackles make noise, which isn’t always the case across the bird kingdom, ...

Austin is home to two main grackle species, the common grackle and the — ironically — much more common great-tailed grackle. These two species, however, wear five different looks: two male, two female ...

A female great-tailed grackle foraging in a parking lot in Sacramento, California. The image may only be used in connection with reporting on the article/research by Corina Logan et al. (2023).

Are your feeders dominated by grackles? Ours are too. Common grackles are large birds, 11-13 inches long, with long beaks. Their coloring is black with a beautiful iridescent sheen of blue, purple and ...

Some of the more common birds we see here in Texas are the grackles. You can hardly walk through a supermarket parking lot without seeing one of these brown or black birds peering out at you from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boat-tailed Grackle (Adult Male)(Quiscalus major), Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive, Apopka, Florida. From a distance the Boat-tailed ...