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

Juvenile grackles. Given that adult grackles can be generally handsome birds, the young grackle is ugly, loud and demanding. Their heads are scraggly or almost bald.

The common grackle covers more ground to the ... experimental film. The juvenile grackle presents in an array of browns and bronzes. By adulthood the iridescent feathers resemble a ChromaFlair ...

Prior to European settlement the Common Grackle was likely not common. It wasn’t until settlers started clearing land for agricultural uses that the species start expanding, and rapidly.

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 ...

They’re just fascinating to me.” Here are several reasons to give a (expletive) about great-tailed grackles. More common than common grackles. The great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus ...

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 ...