If you have a keen eye for bird watching, you may have noticed fewer and fewer grackles appearing in your yard. Populations ...

It might sound strange to hear that a once-common bird is experiencing a decline, but that is what is happening with the common grackle. This iridescent blackbird species, once numbering around ...

Common grackle has a long, graduated tail often held ... Breeding Bird Survey has detected a general decline in this species, at a rate of 2.1 percent per year.