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Names: Great-tailed Grackle, Mexican Grackle\n\n\n
Two Great Tailed Grackles or Mexican Grackles
A glossy male Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus singing on the log against bright green vegetation background
A female Great tailed grackle on a branch on a beach in Costa Rica.
A Great-tailed Grackle in tree
A groove-billed ani perches atop a dead tree branch in Costa Rica.
A great-tailed Grackle on a tree top
The Great-Tailed Grackle or Mexican Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is a highly social North and South American medium-sized songbird.  The males are glossy black and iridescent and the females are brown and drab colored.  Although the grackle is black, it is not a blackbird.  It is sometimes mistaken for a crow but is not a member of that family either.  Great-tailed grackles originally came from the tropical lowlands of Central and South America but over the past 140 years have spread into North America.  Grackles forage in pastures, wetlands and mangroves for a wide variety of food.  They eat larvae, insects, nestlings, worms, tadpoles, fish and eggs.  They remove parasites from cattle and eat fruits and grains.  Grackles are highly intelligent birds that can solve complex problems to get food.  The male grackle has a distinctive noisy call.  They communally roost in trees at night and during the breeding season they build a nest in the trees.  This male grackle was photographed while perched in a tree by Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
Boat Tailed Grackle  Circle B Bar Reserve Florida USA
black crow at the beach.
Great-tailed (Mexican) Grackle in Katy, Texas
A female Great tailed grackle on a branch on a beach in Costa Rica.
Boat-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus major) with a green background
carrion crow flying
A beautiful male Great-tailed Grackle perches on a tree in coastal Texas.
The Great-Tailed Grackle or Mexican Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is a highly social North and South American medium-sized songbird.  The males are glossy black and iridescent and the females are brown and drab colored.  Although the grackle is black, it is not a blackbird.  It is sometimes mistaken for a crow but is not a member of that family either.  Great-tailed grackles originally came from the tropical lowlands of Central and South America but over the past 140 years have spread into North America.  Grackles forage in pastures, wetlands and mangroves for a wide variety of food.  They eat larvae, insects, nestlings, worms, tadpoles, fish and eggs.  They remove parasites from cattle and eat fruits and grains.  Grackles are highly intelligent birds that can solve complex problems to get food.  The male grackle has a distinctive noisy call.  They communally roost in trees at night and during the breeding season they build a nest in the trees.  This female grackle was photographed at Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
Boat-tailed Grackle perched in a tree.
Grackle in tree in tree, Playa del carmen
A black bird perched on a branch
A Clark's nutcracker perches on a bleached branch in Yellowstone National Park.
Great-tailed Grackle, adult male. Taken in Laguna Atacosa NWR, Texas/
A black crow along the shoreline of western Vancouver Island.
zanate mexican
Shimmering vibrant colours and diversity of species such as this Grackle, marks Costa Rica as one of the principal Central America countries with a territory and tropical rainforest that hosts migration from north America and south America to give it unparalleled numbers and variation of birdlife
this picture of a blackbird taken looking up. He lives in Central America, by the Ocean
Water Birds including Wood Stork, Ibis and Cormorant in flight, wading and walking in an urban wetlands park in Orlando, Florida
Great-tailed Grackle perching branch on the island of Ambergris Caye, Belize.
Young white winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos) perched on a branch
Boat tailed grackle sits on a tree branch against a blue sky.
Southern Black Flycatcher.\nThe southern black flycatcher (Melaenornis pammelaina) is a small passerine bird of the genus Melaenornis in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae, native to open and lightly wooded areas of eastern and southern Africa.\n\nThis species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 4,000,000 square kilometres (1,500,000 sq mi). The global population size has not been quantified but the bird is listed by the IUCN as being of \
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