Some of the more common birds we see here in Texas are the grackles. You can hardly walk through a supermarket parking lot without seeing one of these brown or black birds peering out at you from ...

I am familiar with worthy urban devil birds and the people they live to cause grief. For the past decade, I’ve been on the receiving end of New Yorkers’ gripes about the common pigeon (or the “rock ...

» If you are interested in seeing the great-tailed grackle, follow these instructions provided by Spokane birder Ron Dexter. Watch for flocks of blackbirds and listen for what Dexter describes as the ...

‘Tis the season, but that white stuff falling from the sky might not be snow. Each year around this time, hundreds of thousands of grackles gather to roost around the city. Most of the time these ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Deep in the heart of the Walmart parking lot on Shreveport Bossier Highway, every day is a fight for survival as Great-tailed grackles fight over scraps. Parking lot ...

Because it's illegal to kill the noisy, iridescent black birds known as grackles, the second best option is to learn how to live with them. After all, we humans are the ones who create a utopia-like ...

I hate to start my response by being fussy, but I’m quite sure the guy who made that blasphemous movie about birds was “Alfred” Hitchcock, not Albert. Albert was Alfred’s younger brother. Albert ...

Some consider the great-tailed grackle among the more pesky birds, but the black birds are smarter than one might think. Some researchers rank them right up there with crows, which are known for their ...

A swarm of grackles in downtown Houston. There's a strange phenomenon you may have witnessed during your evening commute over the past couple of months. We're talking about huge flocks of black birds ...

Kong didn’t know it yet, but on the morning of May 15, as she sat demurely on the damp back lawn of a home in North Austin’s Wooten neighborhood, true love was on the way. Her orblike body was pocked ...

FORT WORTH - As dusk fell here one evening recently, an armed team spread out over the corporate campus of RadioShack Corp. and waited. Suddenly, high above the downtown skyscrapers, the electric-blue ...