Grackle Bird

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Grackle, Great-tailed Grackle

***** Location: Oklahoma, other areas
***** Season: All Summer
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

Quiscalus mexicanus

Quote from Birds of Oklahoma

Description:
16-17" female 12-14" tail very long and keel-shaped, male black with iridescent purple on back and breast, female smaller brown with pale breast, eyes always yellow, Common Grackles smaller and often have brown eyes



Nesting:
3-4 pale blue eggs, spotted and scrawled with brown and purple, placed in a bulky nest of sticks, grass, and mud in a tree.

Habitat:
Parks, towns, parking lots at fast-food restaurants, ranches, coastal marshes, wetlands, flatlands with trees. Common. Usually near water.

Range:
resident in California, Colorado in west southward to Louisiana, Gulf Coast.

Diet:
Insects, lizards, aquatic invertebrates and vertebrates, ectoparasites from domestic stock, bird eggs, nestlings; fruit, grain, grass seeds.

Notes:
extending range eastward toward Florida, nests placed close together in colonies of few to thousands, male disputes are low key, but females squabble over choice of nest site and steal nest materials from each other

When present in Oklahoma:
present statewide year-round, more abundant during summer

© Birds of Oklahoma Net
http://www.birdsofoklahoma.net/Gtailgrack003.htm



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Worldwide use

oo kuro mukudori modoki オオクロムクドリモドキ common grackle
a type of mukudori

crow blackbird

. mukudori 椋鳥 gray starling .

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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

boat-tail grackle!
an open black-car door triggers
the security alarm

"chibi" (pen-name for Dennis M. Holmes)

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grackles
socializing in the trees
call for spring


iridescent black...
happy grackles
put color in life

- Shared by Pat Geyer
Joys of Japan, March 2012




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Related words

***** Oklahoma Saijiki


***** . THE BIRD SAIJIKI .

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