common grackle

noun

1. a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.

Example Sentences

Blackbirds — red-winged and the common grackle — are showing up.

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Some 90% of the total loss came from just 12 bird families and 19 widespread bird species such as the dark-eyed junco, common grackle and house sparrows.

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On my last day in Austin, while walking through a park, I encountered a common grackle hunting for insects in the grass.

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Walking through the Locust Grove, he spied a tufted titmouse, and from the ramparts of Belvedere Castle he spotted through his binoculars a common grackle and a palm warbler.

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“We used to never get an emergence of the common grackle in the winter,” Mr. DiCostanzo said.

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