I am familiar with worthy urban devil birds and the people they live to cause grief. For the past decade, I’ve been on the receiving end of New Yorkers’ gripes about the common pigeon (or the “rock ...

While this week's featured creature, the common grackle, can be found in the Ada area year-round, it is more abundant during ...

This week’s featured creature may be one of the most commonly seen birds, as nearly every Walmart parking lot is populated ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Deep in the heart of the Walmart parking lot on Shreveport Bossier Highway, every day is a fight for survival as Great-tailed grackles fight over scraps. Parking lot ...

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 ...

» If you are interested in seeing the great-tailed grackle, follow these instructions provided by Spokane birder Ron Dexter. Watch for flocks of blackbirds and listen for what Dexter describes as the ...

One explanation for why some species decline is that human modifications make existing habitat unsuitable for them. For other species, these modifications are advantageous and make the habitat ...

Among the predictable subjects of calls to this desk each spring and fall are complaints that someone’s bird feeder is being “raided” or “taken over” by grackles. Many feeder-operators don’t take ...

I hate to start my response by being fussy, but I’m quite sure the guy who made that blasphemous movie about birds was “Alfred” Hitchcock, not Albert. Albert was Alfred’s younger brother. Albert ...