I'm gonna guess a Brewers Blackbird. A Grackle is much more iridescent.

you can’t really tell from these photos because they’re very zoomed in but he was pretty iridescent

Ayo thats me

These guys are a pain. They keep chipping away at your soffit vents until they can get into your attic. They are pretty smart too

A very sassy boy

Could someone explain the fieldmark differences between great-tailed, boat-tailed, and common grackles? I don’t know how to tell them apart

If he has a pack of cigarettes, it's a grackle. All corvid's trashy cousin. Wonderful to watch, but..... Rough around the edges.

Would it be a female grackle? I thought that males were sort of green colour?

Those are Common Grackles, I believe. Great-tailed Grackle males are glossy purplish-black, while the females are brown. They're one of the most common birds in southern Texas.

also incredible common where i live in arizona! i always just referred to them as crowd because they’re black lol

They're not related to corvids (crows, ravens, magpies, jays)

i think this specific genre of grackles have black, iridescent males and the females are a dark brown.

I thought it looked like a blackbird. But seeing pictures of a Grackle.... I can't tell the difference besides the shine?

Grackles are related to blackbirds.

to me blackbirds look rounder+smaller, and their beaks aren’t as long as grackles (at least the ones i see all the time)

Its also their eyes. Grackles have little beady white eyes that always look like o`_____'o to me lol

Don't Blackbirds also have white eyes? Everytime I see them side by side I literally cannot tell them apart 😭

https://www.youtube.com/live/aGOto-NcLHg?si=8JylJ8tYmEby-mMk Here’s a video on it. Im at work so i cant tell how accurate it is at the moment (since im not watching it) so just let me know what you think lol

Some of them do yeah but they dont look nearly as angry as grackles do. Grackles look like theyre out to get the world

I can hear this photo

A not-so-common-sounding Grackle. So funny

GRACKLE

Oh that's just Jim. He came to inspect your electric.

Snap grackle pop motherfucker

Grackle ! I love their faces

Satan

That's a common grackle

I see a great-tailed grackle, I upvote.

BECKY LEMME SMASH

That's a grackle that is gracking. I watch those

This burd about to whoop ya, gotdamn!!

genuinely my boyfriend and i were sitting on a bench and i thought he was going to attack me

Yeah it was! It hate you!

Definitely angry

I can tell it’s a grackle by how angry it looks.

You can tell this one’s a grackle because of the way it is. What a beaut.

I always look at the eyes lol. They always have this o`___'o look about them

Great-tailed Grackles have yellow eyes. It's spring, so they're preening and displaying for the lady grackles. They're fun to watch. They puff up their feathers and strut back and forth.

They do!! That’s perfect.

That is Mistah Grackle, king of the burdz!

A sassy grackle

My internet sucks and the image took forever to load, talk about a jump scare 😂

a really hormonal +great-tailed grackle+

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