Texas
Great-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus mexicanus
(L 15-18" WS 19-23" WT 3.7-7 oz)
Females especially can recognize
individual researchers and will
sound an alarm call.
South Padre Island
females
29Oct2010
The grackle’s voice is less than mellow,
His heart is black, his eye is yellow,
He bullies more attractive birds
With hoodlum deeds and vulgar words,
And should a human interfere,
Attacks that human in the rear.
I cannot help but deem the grackle
An ornithological debacle. (Ogden Nash)
11Apr2014