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 ...

My friend John loved grackles. He believed that, to be true to the oft-trumpeted independent Texas spirit, we should change our state bird. Why share the mockingbird, he said, with four other states, ...

The Common Grackle – A medium-sized blackbird whose plumage is black, and has a sheen that is glossy and iridescent. Common Grackles range over almost all of eastern North America east of the Rockies, ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The photos are all over social media, with comparisons never far behind to the Alfred Hitchcock thriller, "The Birds." Yes, we're talking about the Great-tailed Grackle. We've ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

Texans—especially urban Texans—are intimately familiar with grackles. The chattering, swaggering great-tailed grackle is a common sight in urban areas, with numbers that have boomed to 4.8 million in ...

Across North America, grackles are virtuosos of adaptation. The small- to medium-sized New World blackbirds are particularly social and known for foraging skills that help them flourish in ...

There are many villains in the bird world and the common grackle is one of them. This large blackbird is a common bully around feeders, chasing the other birds away while he feasts on the seeds.

Workers passing at their own peril through an avian war zone outside the Harris County Administration Building this week undoubtedly came away with a new appreciation for poet Ogden Nash's take on the ...

Grackles have been prancing around my lawn this week showing off their iridescence as they search for grubs and other fodder. The grackles are large, black, conspicuous – and almost always unwelcome ...

When Steve Oleson left his longtime job as a photographer in the Texas attorney general’s office, he did what any new retiree would do: He used his new freedom to pursue a passion. For Oleson, that ...