Great-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus mexicanus
The adult Great-tailed Grackle is a highly adaptable blackbird of wetlands, farms, suburbs, city parks, and open areas across much of the southern and western United States, Mexico, and Central America. It walks boldly on the ground, flies strongly between perches, and forages on insects, grains, fruit, small vertebrates, eggs, and human food scraps. Males are glossy black with very long keel-shaped tails, while females are smaller and brown with shorter tails. One notable fact is its remarkable behavioral flexibility, including problem-solving around human-altered habitats.
- Type
- Wing
- Conservation status
- LC
Growth chain
- Great-tailed Grackle Hatchling
- Great-tailed Grackle Fledgling
- Great-tailed Grackle