Grackle (Quiscalus quicula)

Photo by BarrytheBirder

Common Grackle

Plumage appears all black at a distance.   In good light, males show glossy purplish blue head, neck, and breast.   The Common Grackle's song is a short, creaky koguba-leek; its call note, a loud chuck.   Its range is southern Canada to the Gulf states east of the Rockies.

 

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