HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- If you live in Texas, you know about grackles. They cover yards and power lines, make downright awful noises, and have been known to make a mess on vehicles. There's more to ...

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 ...

If their reviews on Yelp are any indication (3 stars), Austin residents are evenly divided between hating and loving our local trash birds, the grackles. Maligned for pilfering from the plates of ...

Grackle rhymes with cackle and hackle and both words apply to this extra large, brazen, iridescent black bird. Their voice is a combination of a raucous cackle and crackle and when I see them the ...

The next time you walk out of a grocery store to find your freshly waxed car spotted with white blobs of bird poop and curse the glossy obsidian-hued birds nesting on a power line above your head, I ...

A reader shared a photo of a bird that looks like a common grackle with white patches. He asked our experts: is it leucistic?

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 ...

Some consider the great-tailed grackle among the more pesky birds, but the black birds are smarter than one might think. Some researchers rank them right up there with crows, which are known for their ...

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 ...