| Common Name: | Grackle, Great-tailed | | Scientific Name: | Quiscalus mexicanus | | Family: | Icteridae (Blackbirds) | | Area: | male - Buckskin Mountain State Park, Arizona | | Date: | November 5, 2005 | 
Great-tailed Grackles are very common birds in the urban Southwest, and may some times be mixed in with the smaller Red-winged Blackbirds Their loud raucous noises call attention to themselves, particularly the males. Males are solid glossy black, compared to females, which are a duller brown. | 
female - Buckskin Mountain State Park, Arizona --- February 9, 2010 | | Reference: | Western Birds by Peterson / Watchable Birds of the Southwest by Gray |
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