While this week's featured creature, the common grackle, can be found in the Ada area year-round, it is more abundant during ...

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – It’s that time of year in the Key City when we see a lot of birds in the skies, especially near the southside Walmart. These birds are called grackles, and local experts ...

A black bird isn't necessarily a blackbird. It could be a crow, a grackle or a starling. Flocks of black birds are common in fields, on power lines and along roads in the fall. All these black birds ...

Failing that, perhaps we could find some regal Houston designation for the grackle. Consider this excerpt from B.C. Robison’s “Birds of Houston”: “Common grackles assemble in flocks in open areas such ...

Black birds. Good or bad? Depending on which black bird species, your answer could be yes or no … or something in between. First of all, we have to get the nomenclature straightened out so we can make ...

Each year at about the middle of October, we experience the leaf-drop. The foliage that has been on the tree branches since mid-May finally responds to the weakening abscission layers on their ...

When we think about signs of spring in New England, what usually comes to mind? Flocks of robins, red-winged blackbirds staking out territory in the marsh, vernal pools and peepers (they’ve been ...

Toward the end of May I received an e-mail from a lady in Colstrip. She castigated me for feeding grackles. She contended the grackles would eventually drive away all other birds, and I would be left ...

A flock of 30 snow buntings at the former North Country Stables was one of the highlights during the annual Yellowknife ...

My friend John loved grackles. He believed that, to be true to the oft-trumpeted independent Texas spirit, we should change ...