» If you are interested in seeing the great-tailed grackle, follow these instructions provided by Spokane birder Ron Dexter. Watch for flocks of blackbirds and listen for what Dexter describes as the ...

Some of the more common birds we see here in Texas are the grackles. You can hardly walk through a supermarket parking lot without seeing one of these brown or black birds peering out at you from ...

Are your feeders dominated by grackles? Ours are too. Common grackles are large birds, 11-13 inches long, with long beaks. Their coloring is black with a beautiful iridescent sheen of blue, purple and ...

FORT SILL, Okla. (April 14, 2016) -- When I met my son and his wife in San Antonio last week, he asked me about some very noisy blackbirds. "They sound like squeaky machinery," he said. I knew just ...

What Does a Common Grackle Look Like? At a glance, many birders might confuse a common grackle for other black birds, including European starlings, red-winged blackbirds or American crows. Look closer ...

The first common grackles arrived March 22 this year. We heard their high-pitched screeches, which sound like rusty hinges on a garden gate, and saw these blue jay-sized black-colored birds flying by.

The first blackbird landed in my backyard with a raspy ‘chuck.’ That’s the sound a Grackle sentry makes entering fresh grounds. It’s like the swift clatter a two-by-four makes falling off the upper ...