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Boat-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus major
 (m L 16.5" WS 23" Wt 8 oz)
(f L 14.5" WS 17.5" Wt 4.2 oz)
Merritt Island NWR
01Feb2014
On the Florida Gulf Coast
have a brown eye.
Quiscalus in Latin means what kind
(perhaps was a local name for a
bird or perhaps means quail);
major in Latin means greater.
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female
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Macaulay
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