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A Common Grackle warns off a challenger at a backyard feeder.

Port Elizabeth, Bequia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: the Caribbean grackle (Quiscalus lugubris) is a medium-sized, dark bird native to the Caribbean, known for its glossy black plumage with iridescent purples and greens. It is a member of the Icteridae family and is often seen in both urban and rural areas, where it thrives in a variety of habitats, including coastal regions, open fields, and cities. The species is highly adaptable, feeding on a broad diet that includes insects, seeds, fruits, and human food scraps. With its loud, harsh calls and bold behavior, the Caribbean grackle is often seen in large, noisy flocks, especially during the non-breeding season. While it is not considered threatened, the species' expansion into urban areas has led to some local conflicts with humans due to its tendency to scavenge in public spaces.

A Grackle arrives on the backyard deck

The Great-Tailed Grackle or Mexican Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is a highly social North and South American medium-sized songbird. The males are glossy black and iridescent and the females are brown and drab colored. Although the grackle is black, it is not a blackbird. It is sometimes mistaken for a crow but is not a member of that family either. Great-tailed grackles originally came from the tropical lowlands of Central and South America but over the past 140 years have spread into North America. Grackles forage in pastures, wetlands and mangroves for a wide variety of food. They eat larvae, insects, nestlings, worms, tadpoles, fish and eggs. They remove parasites from cattle and eat fruits and grains. Grackles are highly intelligent birds that can solve complex problems to get food. The male grackle has a distinctive noisy call. They communally roost in trees at night and during the breeding season they build a nest in the trees. This male grackle was photographed while perched in a bush at Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Two Great Tailed Grackles or Mexican Grackles

A common grackle perched on a wooden stump watching another grackle as it leaves with a peanut.

Greater Antillean grackle (Quiscalus niger) sitting on the Cuban beach

Close up of male grackles perched on railing

A solitary grackle perches on a rocky surface, its dark form contrasting with the lighter background.

Two grackles posing on a picnic table.

The Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) is a medium-sized North American blackbird and named after the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer. Adult males have black plumage with an iridescent head and glossy highlights on the rest of the body. The feet and legs are black and the eye is bright yellow. The female is a brownish-grey color. The female's eye is dark brown. Their breeding habitat is open and semi-open areas near water, across central and western North America. The Brewer’s Blackbird is often a permanent resident in the west. They are also very adaptable to humans and frequently come to bird feeders. This male blackbird was photographed near Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

A mainate at the feeder

Daytime scene in a Toronto public park, Canada

Great-tailed Grackle (quiscalus mexicanus) perched on a metal post

At dusk, three black birds backlit on the leafless branch of a tree, against a clear sky.

Fishing crow Corvus ossifragus perches on a seed feeder in Bonita Springs, Florida

Parliament of rooks (crow family) gathering in winter. Flock of birds against a moody sky - as if in a horror movie.

A Brown headed cowbird on the deck

Strepera graculina looking for food

Des quiscales à la mangeoire, Sainte-Apolline, Québec, Canada

Male Brewer's Blackbird.

Common Grackle (male) (quiscalus quiscula) perched on a bird feeder pole

A humorous view of juvenile Grackle birds lined up on a rail as if to parody hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. The animated mainly black birds with iridescent feathers display on singing, one with beak closed and one with his eyelid shut. A cerulean blue sky exists in the background.

A common grackle perched on a wooden stump with a peanut in its beak.

The Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) is a medium-sized North American blackbird and named after the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer. Adult males have black plumage with an iridescent head and glossy highlights on the rest of the body. The feet and legs are black and the eye is bright yellow. The female is a brownish-grey color. The female's eye is dark brown. Their breeding habitat is open and semi-open areas near water, across central and western North America. The Brewer’s Blackbird is often a permanent resident in the west. They are also very adaptable to humans and frequently come to bird feeders. This male blackbird was photographed near Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Grackle poses on the deck

Brewer's blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) is a medium-sized New World blackbird. It is named after the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer. Passeriformes. Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve. Eating Alkali flies (Ephydra hians), a speices of brine fly, at Mono Lake, California. Adult flies live 3-5 days, during which they eat algae and lay eggs in the hypersaline water.

A male Boat-tailed Grackle calls out in Paynes Prairie Nature Preserve, Gainesville, Florida.

Daytime scene

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