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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Common Grackle






The Common Grackle also known by its Latin name Quiscalus Quiscula, which translates to "Grackles Grackle". The male is generally larger than the female. Although they both commonly have a dark, large bill, yellow eyes, and a long tail as adults. It's feathers are colors ranging from black, green, purple, and blue. Though it looks black from a distance the rest of its body  is bronze. These gregarious birds have been known to to devastate corn stock and when they're not ruining a farmers day they are stealing from other birds. In other cases Common Grackles have been known to eat other adult birds along with insects as well, which makes an omnivore. Though having its population in the millions its population has seen a decrease of 2% every year from 1966-2014. They still stay on the list of least concern even though this decline accounted for 58% of their population. Right now they are most common in Northern America thriving in the eastern side of the U.S..

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