Next, when the location of the food was swapped, the researchers examined how quickly the grackles relearned where to find it. “Our key behavioural finding is that—across all three populations—male ...

According to birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman, the photo (above) shows a young male boat-tailed grackle molting into adult plumage. “The head and parts of the bird’s wing still have ...

Male common grackle. “Large, lanky blackbirds with ... Given that adult grackles can be generally handsome birds, the young grackle is ugly, loud and demanding. Their heads are scraggly or ...

They love lizards, fruit, seeds, nuts, spiders, crawfish, tadpoles, millipedes, wasps, bees, moths, slugs, worms, snails, grasshoppers, mice, bird eggs, small snakes ... glossy black males strutting ...

They compared the rapidly expanding great-tailed grackle with their closest relative, the boat-tailed grackle, who are not rapidly expanding their range. Based on citizen science observations of bird ...

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 ...

I know I am in the minority on this one, and this might make me sound like some kind of bird hipster ... in the bright Texas sun, and the male grackle reveals itself as sporting a violet-tinged ...

Alex Breen and Daniel Deffner, of the Max Planck Institute, studied the Pauline conversion of the boat-tailed grackle — a bird of the US shoreline and coastal marshes. The all-black male ...