However, their broad, fan-shaped tails set them apart. Their heads are flat, not rounded like boat-tailed grackles. These birds are common from Texas and Oklahoma to southern California.

The great-tailed grackle is the most common in Houston. And our urban grackle comes across as a playful bird. Sure, their numbers can prompt Hitchcockian anxiety. But they create a wide range of ...

The piping plover may have a new predator to worry about, the common grackle, which has been photographed for the first time eating eggs in a nest of the endangered migratory bird. “This behavior adds ...

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 ...