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 ...
The Common Grackle – A medium-sized blackbird whose plumage is black, and has a sheen that is glossy and iridescent. Common Grackles range over almost all of eastern North America east of the Rockies, ...
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 ...