Today's Bird- the Common Grackle
Smaller than Crows & Ravens
By Lightning Bolt ⚡Published 7 months ago • Updated 7 months ago • 1 min read
Quiscalus quiscula
~~🐦🐦🐦⬛🪶This is my continuing daily series that explores the avian world one bird at a time. "I would like to paint the way the world sings." -- Claude Monet
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Master of disguise
black but then iridescent
sharp, metallic calls
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Comments (6)
Great haiku. What a wildly unique bird. Love the colors
They're doing very well here. We have quite a population of them, along with Great Tailed Grackles. They're also talented mimics.
Weird how the one in the first vid puffs up every time before it does its call. Cool birds.Thanks for sharing, Bill!
The description makes it sound cool. Reminds me of some high-tech gadgets I've worked with. Gotta see where it leads.
I love the way your poems sound - like I can hear “sharp, metallic sounds” ❤️❤️❤️
What an interesting bird. It seems they are not very popular among other smaller birds in the seed feeders.