Boat-tailed grackles have rounder heads than the great-tailed grackles and dark (not yellow) eyes. Check out black and white birds you might see. Females grackles are a bit smaller than males with ...

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The grackle’s feathers look different in varied light, with flashes of violet, midnight blue, black and a brilliant emerald. The more they move, the more the colors reveal themselves.

A common and widespread ground-dwelling icterid of the West, the Brewer’s in some ways replaces the common grackle ecologically ... but tertials are always entirely black.