Look For Adult male great-tailed grackle is a large, glossy black bird and long black keel-shaped tail, for which it is named. They also have a purple iridescence to their plumage. Furthermore, they have a huge bill and yellow eyes. Females and young birds are smaller and pale brown below, dark gray above, with a […]
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Look For This big, dark bird is like a common grackle with a tail extension. Males are dark bluish green in bright sunlight and 16 ½ inches in length. Females are dark brown overall with black wings and are slightly smaller than males (14 ½ inches long). This species was formerly considered a single species
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Look For Adult male is orange and black with an orange crown and black face and throat. The “hood” on the hooded oriole is golden orange, not black as in many of our other orioles. Their bill is thinner and down-curved. White coverts on black wings are less extensive than those of Bullock’s oriole. They
Look For Adult male is bright orange below with an orange face, black throat and crown, and black eye line. The similar hooded oriole has an orange crown and nape. The Bullock’s huge white wing patch (on the coverts) stands out on black wings and is obvious in flight, as is the black-tipped tail of
