The grackle is part of the Icterid family, which includes species like blackbirds, as well as orioles and meadowlarks. Because grackles gather in such unnatural environs as Kroger parking lots ...

There is a large family of birds belonging to the blackbird family, but an invasive species often causes confusion.

Common grackle has a long, graduated tail often held ... Breeding Bird Survey has detected a general decline in this species, at a rate of 2.1 percent per year.

The piping plover may have a new predator to worry about – the common grackle, which has been photographed for the first time eating eggs in a nest of the endangered migratory bird. “This behavior ...

Cornell University and NVIDIA researchers team up to build better appearance models for biological iridescence using bird feathers.

Other than the first records above, there were other highly notable reports. A marbled godwit, identified and photographed at ...