Female great-tailed grackle. “Long-legged, slender blackbird with a flat-headed profile. Females are dark brown above, paler below, with a buff-colored throat and a stripe above the eye.” ...

In honor of Halloween, I thought I’d talk a little bit about birds that are black, some of which are blackbirds and some of which are not. The first one is the great-tailed grackle. If you’ve ...

SAMUEL: Yeah, it was the great-tailed grackle, a shiny black bird with a long tail and yellow eyes. DETROW: What is it about birds that you love so much that makes you want to spend time studying ...

When they turned their binoculars upwards, birdwatchers saw a black bird with long, ribbon-like tail feathers, longer than its body. It was a greater racket-tailed drongo ...