Birders

ShazzieB

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16. I was going to guess grackle (because it's too slender to be a crow).

Sun Jun 4, 2023, 03:00 PM

Jun 2023

But I didn't know what kind. Turns out there are a lot more grackle species than I realized. From wWikipedia:

Grackles is the common name of any of 11 passerine birds (10 extant and one extinct) native to North and South America. They belong to various genera in the icterid family. In all the species with this name, adult males have black or mostly black plumage. Baby birds like to feed by screeching.

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Can anyone identify this bird? [View all] Lunabell Jun 2023 OP

Looks like a boat tailed grackle (female) nt Xipe Totec Jun 2023 #1

bingo marble falls Jun 2023 #4

Yes, I think you're right. Lunabell Jun 2023 #5

I agree. 2naSalit Jun 2023 #8

I was going to guess grackle (because it's too slender to be a crow). ShazzieB Jun 2023 #16

that, lunabell, appears to be the very rare "corvus brachyrhynchos" rampartc Jun 2023 #2

Too small to be a crow. Lunabell Jun 2023 #3

Boat tailed, or BillyBobBrilliant Jun 2023 #6

Yes. That's Sally, I wondered where she went. marble falls Jun 2023 #7

If they send her back... 2naSalit Jun 2023 #9

They're all over around here, and they're almost as smart as crows. When I filled the cats' bowls .. marble falls Jun 2023 #10

I have experienced them... 2naSalit Jun 2023 #11

Yes, 2naSalit Diamond_Dog Jun 2023 #12

And they roam from feeder to feeder... 2naSalit Jun 2023 #13

We chase them away when we see them on our feeders Diamond_Dog Jun 2023 #14

That's exactly what was going on... 2naSalit Jun 2023 #15

In college a group of us rented a house from a professor; an ornithologist Xipe Totec Jun 2023 #17