These medium-sized, lanky birds have glossy dark feathers. Their heads look blue or purple in the light, in contrast to their ...

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 ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Deep in the heart of the Walmart parking lot on Shreveport Bossier Highway, every day is a fight for survival as Great-tailed grackles fight over scraps. Parking lot ...

The Common Grackle – A medium-sized blackbird whose plumage is black, and has a sheen that is glossy and iridescent. Common Grackles range over almost all of eastern North America east of the Rockies, ...

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 ...

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 ...