All to battle an 8-ounce, highly adaptive bird that's colonizing the country -- and leaving behind inch-thick layers of droppings as it goes. The great-tailed grackle, called by some the devil ...

And they’re loud birds. You can hear Great-tailed grackles squawking when you’re driving across Shreveport parking lots with ...

There is an often noisy, conspicuous bird that has reached the Mountains in recent decades. It looks like an oversized Brewer ...

Some consider the great-tailed grackle among the more pesky birds, but the black birds are smarter than one might think. Some researchers rank them right up there with crows, which are known for ...

dead-eyed bird. So please trust me when I say that if the pigeon is Coldplay, then the great-tailed grackle is U2. It’s louder, smarter, and will totally crap all over your iPhone whether you ...

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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The photos are all over social media, with comparisons never far behind to the Alfred Hitchcock thriller, "The Birds." Yes, we're talking about the Great-tailed Grackle.

The main reason for all the interest, however, is that great-tailed grackles are not supposed to be here. Only five other birds of this species have ever been seen in Washington state. For many ...

Just to put the key in the lock and unlock it... ugh!” Sometimes called “the devil bird,” the great-tailed grackle makes a hell of an impression. That goes for the tens of thousands of them ...

bird eggs, small snakes, and grains. But many Great-tailed grackles are changing the way they live, flocking to the cities in a changing world and changing climate. They dart across parking lots ...