Picante, a male great-tailed grackle, flying by an unbanded female at the Arizona State University campus. To be used for reporting on this research by Kelsey McCune et al. (2025) and by Dieter Lukas ...

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 ...

What Does a Common Grackle Look Like? At a glance, many birders might confuse a common grackle for other black birds, including European starlings, red-winged blackbirds or American crows. Look closer ...

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 ...

Have you ever seen huge flocks of blackbirds crowd Texas parking lots and wondered what attracts them there? Here’s why. Those big flocks of blackbirds have a name — great-tailed grackles — and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of great-tailed grackles gather at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to roost, Feb. 13, 2026. The city-dwelling ...

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 ...

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 ...