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 ...

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 ...

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

» 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 ...

‘Tis the season, but that white stuff falling from the sky might not be snow. Each year around this time, hundreds of thousands of grackles gather to roost around the city. Most of the time these ...

The Common Grackle – A medium-sized blackbird whose plumage is black, and has a sheen that is glossy and iridescent. Common Grackles range over almost all of eastern North America east of the Rockies, ...

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 ...

Earlier this summer, grackles, long a nemesis to University of Texas at Austin students and employees, raised their game, at least according to the Austin American-Statesman: Nesting grackles on the ...

FORT WORTH - As dusk fell here one evening recently, an armed team spread out over the corporate campus of RadioShack Corp. and waited. Suddenly, high above the downtown skyscrapers, the electric-blue ...

Kong didn’t know it yet, but on the morning of May 15, as she sat demurely on the damp back lawn of a home in North Austin’s Wooten neighborhood, true love was on the way. Her orblike body was pocked ...