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.

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 ...

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 ...