They sound like this… Thank God It’s Monday feat. Kool Keith I’m pretty sure that my friend Neil would describe Common Grackle as being ‘very cerebral’.

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The first common grackles arrived March 22 this year. We heard their high-pitched screeches, which sound like rusty hinges on a garden gate, and saw these blue jay-sized black-colored birds flying by.

The decline of many common birds, including grackles, makes it all the more important to protect and cherish them, Witko said. "Birds are amazing, if we stop and look at them," Witko said.

Types of Grackles Common Grackle These medium-sized, lanky birds have glossy dark feathers. Their heads look blue or purple in the light, in contrast to their bronzed iridescent bodies.

I did a bit of reading about the common grackle and here is what I found from the online site All About Birds by the Cornell Lab for Ornithology and the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Common grackles ...

Another grackle, the great tailed grackle, is occasionally seen in our area. It is a larger bird, less glossy, with a huge tail. The females are tan. I saw a flock of them last spring on the north ...

Common Grackles range over almost all of eastern North America east of the Rockies, extending far into Canada in the summer breeding season. They sound like this… ...