» 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 ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Add Preferred Source During the 1980s, grackles roosted in great numbers among the sheltering coastal live oaks planted on the ...

Why do Texas grackles congregate in great gregarious mobs at parking lots, parks, airports during the winter?

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 ...

Unlike the Congress Avenue Bridge bats, grackles are everywhere. They hang around food trailers and grocery store parking lots and can be seen by the thousands on power lines near shopping malls. They ...

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 ...

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 ...

Failing that, perhaps we could find some regal Houston designation for the grackle. Consider this excerpt from B.C. Robison’s “Birds of Houston”: “Common grackles assemble in flocks in open areas such ...

If you're from here, then you are well aware. But if you're new to North Texas, you might look on in wonder – why swarms of birds seemingly take over store parking lots and other places. With each ...