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

They are also darker and more uniformly colored than the female great-tailed. Juvenile grackles. Given that adult grackles can be generally handsome birds, the young grackle is ugly, loud and ...

Grackle plumage makes grackle observation a little like watching a short, experimental film. The juvenile grackle presents in an array of browns and bronzes. By adulthood the iridescent feathers ...

Researchers investigating the great-tailed grackle, a bird that has been establishing new populations across North America in the past few decades, reveal that behavior might play a key role in ...

The common grackle: my nemesis. For those unfamiliar with this winged doom, grackles are black birds with a purple iridescent shine on their chests: Devil airborne beasties with yellow beady eyes ...