Great-tailed Grackle 1 (Male)
Great-tailed Grackle 2 (Male courting female)
Great-tailed Grackle 3 (Female) ...
Great-tailed Grackle
Relatives in same Genus
Common Grackle (Q. quiscula) ...
Great-tailed Grackle
Adult male
Large and lanky blackbird
Very long, wedge-shaped tail, often folded when resting
Long, pointed black bill
Glossy violet-black overall with glowing pale yellow eyes
© Ned Harris, Tucson, Arizona, April 2010 ...
Great-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus mexicanus
The Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is not typically thought of as a photographic subject, but occasionally one will present a nice composition.
Great-tailed Grackle
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Great-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus mexicanus (Gmelim)
Status One confirmed record. On 17 November 1983 a large, partly brown grackle appeared at the A.P. Munt's feeder at Lake LaRose, Annapolis County.
Great-tailed Grackle
Last updated 5/2/96 Great-tailed Grackles are abundant permanent residents of the UTC. They can be found almost anywhere on the UTC, but are very common in urban areas.
Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus. Accidental.
Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis. Rare in spring and occasional in summer and fall in Gulf Coast region. Found in early successional scrub.
Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus. Accidental.
Great-tailed Grackles Are Expanding Northward
Starling & Grackle Bird Feeding Tips
What is a Grackle?
Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula in Central Park
The Grackle ...
8. Female great-tailed Grackle at Lake Merced. Expect this bird to become a Bay Area regular as its range expands northward.
The main threats to the Tricolored Blackbird are the loss of breeding habitat to agriculture and urban development, conflicts with agricultural practices, increased nest predation (especially by locally increasing Great-tailed Grackles), ...
Common Grackle, Quiscalus quiscula
Great-tailed Grackle, Quiscalus mexicanus
Nicaraguan Grackle, Quiscalus nicaraguensis
Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger
Carib Grackle, Quiscalus lugubris ...
Great-tailed Grackle, Quiscalus mexicanus
Shiny Cowbird, Molothrus bonariensis
Bronzed Cowbird, Molothrus aeneus
Brown-headed Cowbird, Molothrus ater
Black-vented Oriole, Icterus wagleri (A)
Orchard Oriole, Icterus spurius ...
The male Boat-tailed Grackle is similar to the Common Grackle but is larger with a much longer tail. Great-tailed and Boat-tailed Grackles are very similar but fortunately have mostly different ranges. Great-tailed Grackles have paler eyes and ...
in the South are found the Florida and boat-tailed grackles, in Texas and Mexico the great-tailed grackles, or jackdaws. Grackles are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Icteridae.
Reddish egrets sometimes nest alongside other birds such as herons, egrets, cormorants and spoonbills. Their predators include raccoons, coyotes and great-tailed grackles, which destroy their eggs and eat the young birds.
Mourning doves, broad-tailed hummingbirds (Selasphorus platycercus), Mexican jays (Aphelocoma ultramarina), bushtits (Psaltriparus minimus), Bewick's wrens (Thryomanes bewickii), great-tailed grackles (Quiscalus mexicanus), ...
 See also: Grackle, Blackbird, Boat-tailed Grackle, Purple, Common Grackle
  
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