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Kentucky Color: Spring Grackles

By Billy Joe Fudge

Of all the Blackbirds, native Common Grackles are my favorite and are easily distinguishable from the horrid, European Starling. They have a longer tail than do Starlings, stand more erect and have no freckles like Starlings but the jet black legs compared to the flesh colored legs of Starlings is a dead giveaway!

Grackles seem to be more refined, respectable and proper. I love seeing them marching through lawns and pastures after and during Spring rains where they are feeding on earthworms forced to the surface because of the saturated soil.

Video: Grackles feeding in the rain





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