GRAND FORKS – Danny Omdahl and I have been watching common grackles, he in Warren, Minnesota, and I on Grassy Hills Lane in Grand Forks. Probably other birders have been watching grackles, too.

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.

Are your feeders dominated by grackles? Ours are too. Common grackles are large birds, 11-13 inches long, with long beaks. Their coloring is black with a beautiful iridescent sheen of blue, purple and ...

Grackles have been prancing around my lawn this week showing off their iridescence as they search for grubs and other fodder. The grackles are large, black, conspicuous – and almost always unwelcome ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Does anyone remember the days when the arrival of thousands of blackbirds ...

The common grackle, a relatively large “black bird,” is another early spring migrant. They have already arrived in our area and many are staking out their nesting sites. Common grackles, Quiscalus ...

Some of the more common birds we see here in Texas are the grackles. You can hardly walk through a supermarket parking lot without seeing one of these brown or black birds peering out at you from ...

Common grackles are widespread across much of North America and are the only grackle species that nests in Maine. Credit: Courtesy of Bob Duchesne Today’s column is inspired by a common mistake ...

If you've ever offered live mealworms, you already know — eastern bluebirds don’t just like them… they light up for them. And during nesting season, mealworms become an absolute VIP food source. While ...

March is known as the month for the first return of many bird migrants, such as American robins, song sparrows, killdeers, sandhill cranes, wood ducks and dozens more. I want to talk about two species ...

When we think about signs of spring in New England, what usually comes to mind? Flocks of robins, red-winged blackbirds staking out territory in the marsh, vernal pools and peepers (they’ve been ...