Boat-Tailed
Grackle
(Quiscalus
major)
Photographed in the wild, Naples, Florida Apr 2008
A
large, long-tailed blackbird, the Boat-tailed Grackle is found exclusively
along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the United States. The noisy, iridescent,
purple-black male is hard to miss.
The
smaller brown female is much less conspicuous, and might even be mistaken for a
different species.
Eye
color in the Boat-tailed Grackle varies from region to region. Grackles along
the Atlantic coast north of Florida have straw-coloured eyes. Florida birds
have dark eyes. Grackles west of Florida to eastern Louisiana have light eyes,
but those further west have dark ones.
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