There are thousands of species of birds, and many of their names are well-known to us—blue jay, robin, and mallard, to name ...

There is an often noisy, conspicuous bird that has reached the Mountains in recent decades. It looks like an oversized Brewer ...

The Red-Bellied Woodpecker is a common visitor at backyard feeders, but do you know how to distinguish male from female? This video shows a great comparison of the two. Notice that the red on the ...

The birds I’m looking at are a Common Grackle—that little man running around on the ground. A lot of the birds that we see here are ones that are more commonly associated with people.

Looking for a wild bird food that deters European Starlings and Common Grackles? Safflower seed will do the trick. The hard shell deters starlings and grackles but is enjoyed by other birds like ...

Common Grackle – 170, Common Ground Dove – 5, Common Loon – 6, Common Nighthawk – 7, Common Tern – 1, Common Yellowthroat – 13, Cooper’s Hawk – 14, Cotton Mouse – 2 ...

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 ...

The show begins at the crack of dawn as thousands upon thousands of roosted blackbirds (mostly common grackles) take wing from the wooded shorelines of lakes and marshes. The largest flocks may ...

Common grackles, although declining, have always been very common in most of the country. But “common” in the sense of being plentiful, does not always explain why the name arose. Common terns ...

The preferred name in “up-to-date birdbooks” is “common grackle.” Despite their close resemblance to blackbirds, as members of the Troupial family, they are more closely related to orioles.

These seed and insect eaters forage mostly on the ground and are widely found across the U.S. Common Grackle, Quiscalus quiscula – This blackbird nests in colonies and large flocks gather in the ...