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US
/ˈɡɹækəɫ/
]
[ UK /ɡɹˈækəl/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈækəl/ ]
NOUN
- long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage
- glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech
How To Use grackle In A Sentence
- ‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’
- Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do.
- Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do.
- So, I e-mailed the pictures to John, who writes A DC Birding Blog, and he identified it as a female boat-tailed grackle (Quiscalus major). Archive 2009-05-01
- As I was washing the dishes, a grackle landed in the grass outside the kitchen window.
- Thousands of Common Grackles fly over downtown Waco and the Alico Building after sunset in Texas.
- Large black birds like crows and grackles are often referred to as trash birds.
- If jays, grackles, and other large birds are crowding out smaller birds, switch to a feeder that discriminates, or blocks, them, but not the smaller, more desirable birds.
- Grasslands and prairies support a number of polygynous species as well, including meadowlarks, bobolinks, dickcissels, lark buntings, and great-tailed grackles.
- This bad habit is known of the Old World cuckoos, the American cow - birds, the South American rice grackle (_Cassidix_), and suspected in the pin-tail whydah (_Vidua serena_). The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations