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A great-tailed grackle ponders the presence of a photographer. Grackles — they’re those noisy, gregarious, black birds that seem to be everywhere. That’s about as much attention as we pay to them. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

Were they red-winged blackbirds, great-tailed grackles or crows? How about double-crested cormorants? Could it have been American coots? Since the nursery rhyme originated in Europe, the blackbirds ...