What Does a Common Grackle Look Like? At a glance, many birders might confuse a common grackle for other black birds, including European starlings, red-winged blackbirds or American crows. Look closer ...

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 ...

An amazing transformation takes place this time of year. Bird-feeding hobbyists all over the region change the name of the common grackle to “darn blackbird!" Luckily, the common grackle is migratory ...

When I asked people for their Houston gripes recently, my Facebook friend William Dylan Powell complained about grackles giving him the side-eye in grocery store parking lots. “Ornithologists haven’t ...