Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How can you tell that it's finally fall in San Antonio? (peeterv/Getty Images) By September, Texans are pretty much over it when ...

Starlings, similar in size to blackbirds, have longer bills and square tails. "Starlings and most blackbird species overlap ...

What Does a Common Grackle Look Like? At a glance, many birders might confuse a common grackle for other black birds, including European starlings, red-winged blackbirds or American crows. Look closer ...

Large flocks of grackles are a common sign of both spring and fall in New England. Milder winters and available food sources ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Does anyone remember the days when the arrival of thousands of blackbirds ...

Failing that, perhaps we could find some regal Houston designation for the grackle. Consider this excerpt from B.C. Robison’s “Birds of Houston”: “Common grackles assemble in flocks in open areas such ...

Even their name grates on the nerves. But not nearly as much as the racket these gregarious birds make when they roost in the hundreds in trees around Houston. "We have tried to get rid of them but it ...