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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Harry Thomas learned the hard way how great-tailed grackles can make parking in downtown San Antonio a real crappy experience. One evening during his first year as a temp at the Express-News, the ...

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 ...

Even their name grates on the nerves. But not nearly as much as the racket these gregarious birds make when they roost in the hundreds in trees around Houston. "We have tried to get rid of them but it ...

I’ve been seeing a lot of common grackles lately, so now is probably a good time to feature the species. But let me first address an error from last week. I ...

Earlier this summer, grackles, long a nemesis to University of Texas at Austin students and employees, raised their game, at least according to the Austin American-Statesman: Nesting grackles on the ...

Last week, I wrote about the red-winged blackbird, one of the first migratory species to arrive in our area in the spring, characterizing their great flocks as the vanguard of an approaching army, ...

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