#Grackles

[hometoursandotherstuff]

#grackles #birbs #birds #other stuff

[manuscriptsdontburn6]

the scientific name for the grackle is gracula quiscula so now next time i see a grackle i will call it count gracula

#manuscriptsdontburnoriginal #grackle #grackles #gracula quiscula #giving vampire #gothgothgoth #goth #im silly i know #count dracula #count gracula

[ostdrossel]

It's Puff Grack season! I love the Grackles, and about a week after their arrival they have started to show off. Please enjoy the Grack Waltz! (Unmute for max fun!)

#birds #backyard birds #Common Grackle #Grackles #Count Grackula #puff #waltz #birdlovers #birds of michigan #birds of north america #birdphotography #nature #Ostdrossel #Friday vibes

[geopsych]

12 years ago today I took this picture on a short walk from my house with a really cheap camera, and for the first time it occurred to me that you don’t have to go to some exotic place or have an expensive SLR camera with lots of lenses in order to take beautiful pictures. Just show up somewhere while the world is being beautiful and do the best you can. And that’s what I’ve been doing ever since.

#pennsylvania #landscape #march 2012 #sunset #grackles #birds #spring #throwback thursday

[great-and-small]

Very impressed with this clever grackle snatching a minnow right out of the creek. Watching birds hunt always makes me feel like an early cretaceous naturalist observing a Utahraptor outsmart its prey.

#birds in the wild #birding #animal behavior #grackles #dinosaurs #predation

[blarplesnoot]

Caught mid-grackle!

It's finally warming up and the massive flocks of grackles are returning to my home state of CT.

Many don't know, but they're an introduced species that flourished in the states, and now unfortunately outcompetes many native species.

^ this is wrong and I apologize. The Great Tailed Grackle is the introduced and invasive one. This image is a common Grackle! Thanks to the commenter for the catch :)

They're still cute when they call though 🥰 I took this picture at the Forest Park Zoo in Springfield. Check it out it's a great little zoo!

#birder #photography #bird photography #birding #birds #nature #wildlife #wildlife photography #grackle #grackles #nature photography #neature #artists on tumblr #art #my photos

[scottpartridge]

Grackles, 16″ x 20″ acrylic on panel 2023

#grackles #painting #acrylic #bird art

[rachelsrandomsphotos]

Female Boat-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus major)

Taken at the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, FL

#boat tailed grackle #boat tailed grackles #grackle #grackles #bird #birds #bird photography #animal #animals #animal photography #wildlife #wildlife photography #nature #nature photography #photography #florida #florida photograhy #florida photographer #brevard zoo #nikon camera #nikon photography #nikon d3500 #Quiscalus major

[rraaaarrl]

i always see people talking about crows and ravans but what of this silly guy, the great-tailed grackle. he traipses into our yard with his squawks and robotic-sounding squeaks and floofs up his vaguely iridescent plumaeg and then

for whatever reasons they enjoy emitting a squawk and looking up this is very important.

#what is UP THERE #grackles #birds #arizona birds #they are also the “parking lot birds” #stealing the random french fry quite proudly

[dragonskulls]

some grackle studies, truly one of god's silliest birds

#art #birds #grackles #bird art #on the first i wanted to practice color and on the second like. imitating the pose and motion #cookie for you if u can find the pics i used for reference lol

[neverlostphotography]

Get grackled y'all

#grackles #great tailed grackle #photo #animal photography #bird #bird photography #todaysbird #i think grackles are becoming some of my favorite birds tbh #funky little guys #wildlife photography

[antiqueanimals]

Greater Antillean grackle (Quiscalus niger)

Part of a collection of watercolor images by "M. Rabié" for St. Domingue Oiseaux. Dated 1766.

Internet Archive

#birds #passerines #grackles #greater antillean grackle #M. Rabié

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Boat-tailed Grackle

Photo: Judy Gallagher

"Until the 1970s, this big blackbird was considered to be the same species as the Great-tailed Grackle, but the two forms overlap on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana without interbreeding. The Boat-tail is a more aquatic creature, nesting in marshes, scavenging on beaches. Except in Florida, it is seldom found far away from tidewater. Boat-tailed Grackles nest in noisy colonies, the males displaying conspicuously with much wing-fluttering and harsh repeated calls."

- Audubon Field Guide

#birds #boat tailed grackle #birds of north america #north american birds #grackles #blackbirds #birds of the us #birding #bird watching #birdblr #birblr #bird of the day #Quiscalus major

[ostdrossel]

Another one for the Grackheads.

They were the highlight on this gloomy day.

#birds #backyard birds #Common Grackle #grackles #Count Grackula #birds of Michigan #birds of north america #birdwatching #birdlovers #nature #Ostdrossel #birdphotography

[dapperenby13]

I feel like grackles don’t get enough love, they’re everywhere where I’m from.

Everyone, share you favorite grackle picture or fact or something. They’re such silly little guys and I love them!

#grackle #v says things #birds #grackles #science side of tumblr #get over here #this is a grackle appreciation post

[dougdimmadodo]

Boat-Tailed Grackle (Quiscalus major)

Family: American Blackbird Family (Icteridae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Native to the southeastern USA, the Boat-Tailed Grackle shares much of its range with the closely related Common Grackle, but can be distinguished from its relative thanks to its larger size (Growing to be around 40cm/15.7 inches long compared to the around 32cm/12.6 inch long Common Grackle) and its considerably longer, broader tail, which is present in both sexes but more prominent in males. Found largely in coastal habitats (although they may also be found near large inland bodies of water or in human settlements where they feed on abandoned food scraps), members of this species roost in large, loosely organised flocks that may contain hundreds of individuals, and which scatter during the day to feed on seeds, fruits, insects, eggs and small vertebrates such as frogs, fishes and occasionally smaller birds before gathering back together at dusk. Boat-Tailed Grackles mate in the early spring (with a male establishing a strictly-guarded territory and producing a high-pitched mating call to invite a large number of females into it) and nest during the late spring and early summer (with several females constructing small, cup-shaped nests among dense elevated vegetation within close proximity to one another to increase the likelihood of potential predators and egg thieves being spotted, and 3-5 pale, speckled and striped eggs being laid in each nest.) Females of this species have pale brown bodies and dark brown wings, while males (such as the individual pictured above) are nearly twice the size of females and possess iridescent black feathers that reflect light in such a way that they may appear purple, blue or green if seen under bright sunlight. As is true of many grackles the males of this species are frequently mistaken for crows (with the word grackle being derived from the Latin graculus, meaning “jackdaw”, in reference to the two small species of Eurasian crows known collectively as jackdaws), but despite their superficial similarities grackles and crows are not closely related (with grackles and their fellow American Blackbirds being more closely related to the American Sparrows of the family Passerellidae.)

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9601-Quiscalus-major

(Side note: Some of the sources I’ve read about grackles seem to suggest that they’re among the most common passerine birds in North America, but I’m curios as to how true that is. I don’t suppose anyone who sees this post and lives in/has been to America can confirm or deny this?)

#Boat-Tailed Grackle #grackle #grackles #blackbird #blackbirds #icterids #icteridae #bird #birds #zoology #biology #ornithology #animal #animals #wildlife #north american wildlife