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Common Grackle

Quiscalus quiscula

Photo by mhufnagl
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

Larger when compared to blackbirds but often seen in flocks with blackbird species. Long heavy bill, yellow eye and bluish purpleish iridescent sheen to feathers.

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