Grackles have been prancing around my lawn this week showing off their iridescence as they search for grubs and other fodder. The grackles are large, black, conspicuous – and almost always unwelcome ...

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 first warm days of early spring have arrived. With the clear skies and mild temperatures, we see plenty of response. Pussy willow and quaking aspen buds are opening their fuzzy growths, while the ...

One of the great spectacles of spring migration is the arrival of the blackbirds. The common grackle (Quiscalus quiscala) is the largest of the blackbirds that visit our area. I think, however, that ...

The grackle is not a popular bird, I learned from reaction to last week’s column, in which I wrote appreciatively of the species. One reader suggested that the only way to appreciate grackles is with ...

SOUTH NEWFANE Last week, I was a music critic, reviewing the musical abilities of our locally common blackbirds: red-winged blackbird, brown-headed cowbird, and common grackle. My review was not ...