Other identifying traits of a common grackle include a pointy bill, a long tail, and blue-black head feathers. Catch a good enough glimpse through binoculars or up close, and you’ll also spot ...

FORT WORTH - As dusk fell here one evening recently, an armed team spread out over the corporate campus of RadioShack Corp. and waited. Suddenly, high above the downtown skyscrapers, the electric ...

The common grackle, a relatively large “black bird,” is another early spring migrant. They have already arrived in our area and many are staking out their nesting sites. Common grackles ...

His head is blue and green, his neck and upper breast shine with metallic gold, his back and wings glow with metallic copper and right under his armpit there is a patch of the most sublime blue, ...

Don’t call them trash birds. Grackles, it turns out, do more than weigh down power lines, steal tortilla chips off your dinner plate and squawk in really loud voices. The gleaming black birds ...

They are with us year-round, as are common grackles, brown-headed cow birds and the only alien in the black bird world — the European starling. They make up 95 percent of the huge flocks that ...

While grackles are so popular they have been dubbed the “the unofficial city mascot,” University of Texas biology professor Peter English told Austin360.com that two other black birds ...

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 ...

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 ...

Secondly, grackles on the UT campus have been a problem for years, and there are few, if any, measures the administration has not tried to get rid of these so-called “devil birds.” Rubber ...

As everyone who reads this column knows, I like birds a whole lot. But there are exceptions. One of those is a bird that we often see at backyard bird feeders. It is the common grackle. I kn… ...