Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) is a lanky, fierce-looking, glossy blackbird. A bit larger than a jay; smaller, proportionally longer-tailed and shorter-winged than a crow. Staring yellow eye and long heavy bill (compared to Red-winged Blackbird).

Quiscalus quiscula

Taken in our yard.

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Common Grackles are fairly large birds with an iridescent blue-black head and striking gold eyes. If they come to the feeder, all the other birds leave.

For a couple of days, I will be photographing different birds that commonly come to my yard. (probably no life birds there haha).

Taken Harns Marsh, Fort Myers, Florida

Taken in our yard. As you can see it is finally warmer here, the grass is turning green. Hope we are done with snow...:-)

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Not sure if he was angry or preparing to fly. His tail was beautifully fanned.

Taken in our yard...

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I guess I'm still not tired of seeing the lovely colours in this bird because I keep taking pictures of it.

This Common Grackle had love on his mind and was seen trying his hardest to impress the few females that surrounded him.

As he strutted back and forth, the iridescent feathers on his head, neck and chest shimmered and shifted incredibly in the light.

The shot was taken on early morning, May 2018 with my trusty Nikon D500 and 300f4D +1.4X combo.

F7.1; 1/1000; ISO 2200. Lightroom 6.0

Boardwalk, J.E. Poole Wetland, Alberta.

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There is a harshness right now to the sunlight that sort of etches away at the landscape here at the end of winter. Still, the amazing assortment of colors that the grackles possess seem to handle just about any light at all as their iridescence comes through and gives them a certain uncommon stature!

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When it's slow and you have nothing you go out anyway and hope, it has been over 100+degrees but you keep on chugging along. Here we have a Grackle a little winf blown but like the shot, so took it and hope you like it to.

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I love these birds, they always look like they are on the rampage. <3

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Juvenile grackle with partial adult plumage. You can tell he is young because the eyes are still brown, not light yellow like adult grackles.

You can find these birds at food courts and parks where food is easily to get.

A Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) observed feeding in a Russian Olive tree in a park at Lake Newell in southeastern Alberta, Canada.

26 May, 2016.

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Male grackle courting a female as she does her best to look unimpressed. :)

Common Grackle

Boat-tailed Grackle with Spider Web, Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive, Apopka, Florida. If I am incorrect on the identification of this bird please let me know. Thanks!

Going back through my archive, this handsome Common Grackle caught my eye. The irridescent colors are striking. Glendale, Missouri

Is he trying to determine the hypotenuse or the angle? This beautiful male common grackle is actually posing to show dominance and claim territory.

The avian genus Quiscalus contains seven of the 11 species of grackles, gregarious passerine birds in the icterid family. They are native to North and South America. The genus was named and described by French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816. Wikipedia

Scientific name: Quiscalus

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A Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) roosting on the old cattail stalk in a marsh west of St. Albert., Alberta, Canada.

9 May, 2023.

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I'm not sure if this is a female or just a young grackle whose eyes have gotten lighter already.

The shell appeared to be empty.

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A Common Grackle gives me the stare as I pass by :)