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 ...

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

Judging by its size and dull-black plumage, I assumed the dead bird in my hand was a juvenile common grackle. Judging by where I found it, I knew it died in a way I fear as much as a fiery death ...

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 ...