» If you are interested in seeing the great-tailed grackle, follow these instructions provided by Spokane birder Ron Dexter. Watch for flocks of blackbirds and listen for what Dexter describes as the ...

FORT SILL, Okla. (April 14, 2016) -- When I met my son and his wife in San Antonio last week, he asked me about some very noisy blackbirds. "They sound like squeaky machinery," he said. I knew just ...

Letters, calls and the tuh-wheets of the crowd: Katherine M. Klier, Towson: Your night chirper is definitely not a grackle. In the first place, the rasping grackle sound doesn’t sound at all like the ...