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A Common Grackle warns off a challenger at a backyard feeder.

A solitary grackle perches on a rocky surface, its dark form contrasting with the lighter background.

A Grackle arrives on the backyard deck

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 bush at Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Two Great Tailed Grackles or Mexican Grackles

A common grackle perched on a wooden stump watching another grackle as it leaves with a peanut.

A humorous view of juvenile Grackle birds lined up on a rail as if to parody hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. The animated mainly black birds with iridescent feathers display on singing, one with beak closed and one with his eyelid shut. A cerulean blue sky exists in the background.

Fishing crow Corvus ossifragus perches on a seed feeder in Bonita Springs, Florida

A Family of Grackles

Close up of male grackles perched on railing

Daytime scene in a Toronto public park, Canada

A mainate at the feeder

The Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) is a medium-sized North American blackbird and named after the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer. Adult males have black plumage with an iridescent head and glossy highlights on the rest of the body. The feet and legs are black and the eye is bright yellow. The female is a brownish-grey color. The female's eye is dark brown. Their breeding habitat is open and semi-open areas near water, across central and western North America. The Brewer’s Blackbird is often a permanent resident in the west. They are also very adaptable to humans and frequently come to bird feeders. This male blackbird was photographed near Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Two grackles posing on a picnic table.

Common Raven Bird foraging on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Great-tailed Grackle (quiscalus mexicanus) perched on a metal post

Greater Antillean grackle (Quiscalus niger) sitting on the Cuban beach

A common grackle perched on a wooden stump with a peanut in its beak.

Parliament of rooks (crow family) gathering in winter. Flock of birds against a moody sky - as if in a horror movie.

Des quiscales à la mangeoire, Sainte-Apolline, Québec, Canada

Strepera graculina looking for food

A Brown headed cowbird on the deck

Male Brewer's Blackbird.

Common Grackle (male) (quiscalus quiscula) perched on a bird feeder pole

At dusk, three black birds backlit on the leafless branch of a tree, against a clear sky.

A male Boat-tailed Grackle calls out in Paynes Prairie Nature Preserve, Gainesville, Florida.

Daytime scene

Close-up of a Cuban black bird singing

Common grackle close up on sand

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