Last week, I wrote about the red-winged blackbird, which is one of the first migratory species to arrive in our area in the ...

After a while, one learns what to expect with each month and each season. July is going to be hot and humid. October will be colorful and somewhat melancholy. January will be cold and sleepy. And then ...

The Common Grackle – A medium-sized blackbird whose plumage is black, and has a sheen that is glossy and iridescent. Common Grackles range over almost all of eastern North America east of the Rockies, ...

I’ve been seeing a lot of common grackles lately, so now is probably a good time to feature the species. But let me first address an error from last week. I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we think about signs of spring in New England, what usually comes to mind? Flocks of robins, red-winged blackbirds staking out territory in the marsh, vernal pools and peepers (they’ve been ...

I went to Pets Mart today and asked for a common grackle, the lady had no idea what I was talking about. Where can I buy one, they look cute and I could ...