GRACKLE

common name applied to some members of the New World family Icteridae, which also includes blackbirds, orioles, meadowlarks, cowbirds, and others. The plumage of the purple, or common, grackle of the Atlantic coastal region is black with metallic hues, iridescent in the sunlight. It feeds on grain and harmful insects, but it is a cannibalistic nest robber. Grackles invade cities and roost in huge flocks. The bronzed grackle, which interbreeds with the purple, is found further inland and W to the Rocky Mts.; in the South are found the Florida and boat-tailed grackles, in Texas and Mexico the great-tailed grackles, or jackdaws. Grackles are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Icteridae.

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books on: Grackle  - 111 results

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Life Histories of North American Blackbirds, Orioles, Tanagers, and Allies. Order: Order: Passeriformes; Families: Ploceidae, Icteridae, and Thraupidae
Book by Arthur Cleveland Bent; Smithsonian Institution, 1958
Subjects: Birds--North America, Icteridae, Tanagers, Weaver-Birds
...153 Buckalew, Herbert, on eastern boat- tailed grackle, 366 Buffalo-bird see eastern brown-headed...headed cowbird, 424 on Florida boat-tailed grackle, 357 on Florida grackle, 392 on western tanager, 469 Burleigh, T. D...
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International Wildlife Encyclopedia - Vol. 8
Book by Maurice Burton, Robert Burton; Marshall Cavendish, 2002
Subjects: Zoology--Dictionaries
Grackles are highly versatile...opportunity. The common grackle, for instance...streams and pools. Grackles have a bad reputation...the great flocks of grackles break up and the...buildings. The female grackle has to guard continuously...
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Naturalist's Guide to the Americas
Book by Victor E. Shelford; Williams & Wilkins, 1926
Subjects: Natural History, Nature Conservation
...Mexican Asturina plagiata Goshawk, Western, Astur atricapillus striatulus Grackle, Boat-tailed, Megaquiscalus major major Grackle, Bronzed, Quiscalus quiscula aeneus Grackle, Florida, Quiscalus quiscula aglaeus Grackle, Great-tailed, Megaquiscalus...
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Evolution and Genetics: The Modern Theory of Evolution
Book by David J. Merrell, Olivia Jensen Ingersoll; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962
Subjects: Evolution (Biology), Genetics
...For example, the purple grackle breeds in a belt between the...Louisiana, and the bronzed grackle breeds in New England and in...ranges of the purple and bronzed grackles meet, all along the Appalachians...Quiscalus quiscula, the purple grackle, and Quiscalus versicolor...
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Audubon
Book by Constance Rourke, James MacDonald; Harcourt Brace and Company, 1936
Subjects: Audubon, John James--1785-1851
...Gallinule, purple, 317 Galt, Dr. Wm. C., 50 Gannet, 266 Goldfinch, 21 Goshawk, 117 Grackle, boat-tailed, 146 Grackle, purple, 116 Grackle, rusty, 139 Grand Tower, 82 -3, 245 , 271 Great Egg Harbor, 230 , 247 Great Pine Swamp...
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journal articles on: Grackle  - 14 results

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Chapter 5: Analysis of Fauna from the Rustad Site
Journal article by Cherie Haury; Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 50, 2005
Subjects: Anthropology, Archaeology, Bones, Carnivores, Dogs, Reptiles & amphibians
...undistinguished variety the size of a grackle or magpie (Table 5.6...closely comparable to that of grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) and...Ubelaker and Wedel 1975). Both grackles and magpies are scavengers...identified-eagle, grouse, and grackle or magpie. Frogs, toads...
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"En Una Fortaleza Preso Queda": A Landscape of Political Allegory
Journal article by Diane Chaffee-Sorace; Romance Notes, Vol. 47, 2007
...the bard comparing Ramirez de Prado to a grackle locked away in a cage: En una fortaleza...Like Ramirez de Prado, the corneja, a grackle, lacked temperance, and Pliny (Natural...pilfered goods, Ramirez de Prado, like the grackle, was put behind bars. Cabrera de Cordoba...
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A New Organizational Approach to Use with Middle-School Readers
Journal article by Jerry J. Watson; Social Studies, Vol. 82, 1991
Subjects: History--Study And Teaching
...meets the proprietor of the inn, Miss Grackle, who is the antithesis of Aarons warm...though not too-careful, mother. Miss Grackle is the epitome of a scoundrel and not...to read how clever Aaron convinces Miss Grackle that Lord Tom is actually a member of...
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The Greater North Borneo Hypothesis
Journal article by Robert Blust; Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 49, 2010
Subjects: Asian languages--Research
...23) PMP *? >PGNB *tiun talking grackle, hill mynah Sabah: Tombonuwo burun...examples) Other Bornean: Kayan manuk tiun grackle, or talking mynah: Gracula religiosa Malayo-Chamic: Iban tion grackle, or talking mynah, broad-billed...
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What Characteristics of Shelterbelts Are Important to Breeding Success and Return Rate of Birds?
Journal article by Carola A. Haas; The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 137, 1997
Subjects: Animal populations, Animal reproduction, Birds, Habitats, North Dakota
...Asio otus), common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula...brachyrhynchos). Only grackles and shrikes were regular...predators (shrikes and grackles) were present at almost...1980, 1981)-common grackle, mourning dove and...species such as common grackle and house sparrow...
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Memories on the Border: An Interview with the Playwright
Magazine article by Elaine Romero; American Theatre, Vol. 25, December 2008
Subjects: Dramatists--Interviews, Lydia (Play)--Evaluation, Playwrights--Interviews, Solis, Octavio--Interviews
...Tell me this poem of the grackle. MISHA: What? LYDIA: You...br/ Making that song, that grackle. crackle, wheeze, and chirp...another occasion to find a she-grackle, <br/ You remind me of things...you have to know people Not grackles. Rosa enters and sees Misha...
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Raging Dove
Magazine article by Louis Lefebvre; Natural History, Vol. 105, December 1996
Subjects: Animal behavior, Barbados, Birds, Islands
...from an overflowing gutter, grackles noisily scavenging around picnic...of birds, such as the Carib grackle, with which single or paired...territorial dove a trained grackle as demonstrator, however...use each other to find food. Grackles are few and far between at...
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Kermit Oliver: Hooks-Epstein Galleries
Magazine article by Susie Kalil; Artforum International, Vol. 40, April 2002
Subjects: Conceptual art--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Oliver, Kermit--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...the sky, so upon a cardinal cloth I have gathered a darkling grackle dying from a eucharist of poisoned rye (all works 2001) shows...abuse of the natural world that will result in the death of the grackle. The cut roses (a common signifier for the ephemerality of...
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The Tuna Fleet That Went to War
Magazine article by Robert P. Sables; Sea Classics, Vol. 35, April 2002
...years. She arrived back in Boston in May 1944 and was decommissioned on 14 August 1944. The USS BLUEBIRD (AM-72), USS GRACKLE (AM-73), USS GULL (AM-74), and USS GOLDFINCH (AM-72) also served in the waters off Newfoundland. Only one of...
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Dark Times for Cuba's Sabal Palms
Magazine article by Doug Wechsler; International Wildlife, Vol. 28, March 1998
Subjects: Cuba--Plants and animals, Endangered species--Cuba, Palms--Environmental aspects
...fibers collected from other palm fronds. Two other members of the blackbird family, the Cuban blackbird and Greater Antillean grackle, conceal cup-shaped nests amidst the dense palm crowns. Kestrels use the young, upward-facing leaves as a lookout point...
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Suiting Up
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 20, 2011
Subjects: News agencies, The Associated Press
...Shirley MacLaine and Jack Black. McConaugheys own production company, j.k. livin, is also developing a film called "The Grackle," in which hell play a barroom brawler for hire in New Orleans French Quarter. After getting another taste of the legal...
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Life in the Louche Lane; Critic's Choice
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 29, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews
...sounding Caribbean bird. Im no ornithologist, but someone at her publishers should have known that the bird is in fact a grackle. As Socrates observed two and a half millennia ago, the unexamined life is not worth living. In her breathless, artlessly...
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Inside Newspapers, Warts and All
Newspaper article by Woody West; The Washington Times, April 17, 1996
...position on volatile issues such as these. As to a "complete change" in newspaper culture, well, thats about as likely as a grackle transforming itself into a falcon. Until the phenomenon of the reporter as celebrity fades, and until editors reassert authoritative...
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The Auto Show at 100 Past Meets Future at Celebration of Machine That Shaped the Suburbs
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 8, 2008
...a pleasant pastime, and roadhouses sprouted up around the area catering to travelers. Among the hotspots were the Purple Grackle, near Elgin, and the Lincoln Tavern in Morton Grove. "Here one sees the leaders in business and the world of accomplishment...
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100 Years Worthy of a Celebration
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 2, 2000
...1 E. Campbell St., and he should know. Baker came to work on Friday to discover a bird - a customer told him it was a grackle - in his shops basement. How the bird got in is still a mystery, Baker said. There is no chimney, and while there is a...
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encyclopedia articles on: Grackle  - 3 results

 
 
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Grackle
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the purple, or common, grackle of the Atlantic coastal...cannibalistic nest robber. Grackles invade cities and roost in huge flocks. The bronzed grackle, which interbreeds with...Florida and boat-tailed grackles, in Texas and Mexico the...
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Archaeopteryx
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...nevertheless had many characteristics now found only in reptiles or in bird embryos. It was about the size of a pigeon or grackle. It is still debated whether Archaeopteryx was arboreal or a swiftly running terrestrial animal and poor flyer. Some claim...
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Blackbird
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BLACKBIRD common name in North America of a perching bird allied to the bobolink, the meadow lark, the oriole, and the grackle and belonging to the family Icteridae. The European blackbird, Turdus merula, is a thrush. The blackbird is possibly the...


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