Common Grackle
| Quiscalus quiscula | Order: Passeriformes | Family: Icteridae (Troupials and Allies) |
Quiscalus quiscula
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Icteridae (Troupials and Allies)
This elegantly long blackbird has an iridescent head, glittering gold eye, and long, pointed tail. It feeds heavily on slugs where available.
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Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Bird feeding recommendations during the bird flu outbreak 2025
- Year of the Chickadee, Part 1 2025
- Fieldfare: The One That Got Away 2024
- Brooding over Cicadas 2024
- Record-breaking Snow and Climate Change 2023
- Spring Update 2023
- First Robin of Spring 2023
- Looking for Spring in All the Wrong Places 2023
- Horrible News on the Bird Front 2021
- October Snow! 2020
- Color Perception 2019
- American Redstart on Peabody Street 2019
- Babies! 2019
- Listener's Favorite Birds #2: Jim Baker's Blue Jay 2018
- First Warbler Walk of the year 2017
- 15,354 days and counting 2017
- Thirty Years 2016
- The Cruelty of an April Wind 2016
- Oldest Wild Birds 2014
- Evolution of Birds at Feeders 2009
- Early Songbird Arrivals: 2009 2009
- Pine Siskin 2009
- A Letter from Roger Tory Peterson 2008
- Fun Morning in Sapsucker Woods 2008
- Golden-crowned Kinglet 2008
- Migration Update 2006
- Spring Advancing 2006 2006
- Crows 2005
- Great Blue Heron colony 2005
- Great Backyard Bird Count, 2005 2005
- George Ellis's Mourning Doves 2005
- Learning to Recognize Everyday Birds 2004
- Spring Is Coming! 2004
- Mealworms 2003
- Rock Pigeon 2003
- Common Grackle 2003
- Ice Storm 2003
- Winter Wren 2003
- Awkward Season 2002
- Cruisin' with Spring 2002
- David Morrison's Grackle Story 2001
- Baby Birds, Part II 2000
- Slow Down! You Move Too Fast (Re-recorded) 2000
- Blackbirds and Black Birds 2000
- Summer Feeding 2000
- Grackle 2000
- Fast Food Franchise Birds 1999
- Poisoned Birds 1999
- Mid- Late Summer 1997 1997
- Lakewood Pumping Station 1996
- Baby Bird Week II 1996
- Spring! 1996
- Baseball Bird List 1995
- Lakewood Pumping Station 1995
- Sprinklers 1995
- Neighborliness 1995
- Signs of Spring 1995
- Summer bird feeders 1994
- Winter Oriole 1992
- Patty Crow 1992
- Commensalism 1991
- Summer Update 1991
- Birding along I-35 1991
- Sounds of Spring Migration 1991
- How to Count Birds 1990
- Migration 1990
- Fall's here! 1989
- Summertime 1989
- Mourning Dove 1989
- Baltimore Oriole 1989
- Slow Down! 1989
- Migration Hows and Whys 1989
- Red-winged Blackbird 1989
- White-crowned Sparrow 1989
- Feeder contest 1989
- Bird Feeder Winter Contest 1988
- Christmas Bird Count 1988 Summary 1988
- Christmas Bird Count 1988 1988
- Identifying birds in flight 1988
- Autumn Ambivalence and the Death of Icarus the Crow 1988
- Mr. Peepers the grackle 1988
- Anting 1988
- Fire and Birds 1988
- Blackbirds! 1988
- Signs of Spring 1988
- Crows and other spring arrivals 1988
- Commensalism 1988
- Ogden Nash's Birthday 1987
- A Letter from Roger Tory Peterson 1987
- Summer's End 1987
- 1-year Anniversary of For the Birds 1987
- Slow Down! You Move Too Fast (Original) 1987
- Grackles (updated with this year's info from 1986 1987
- Kim Eckert's birding class 1987
- Christmas Bird Count 1986 1986
- Feeding in mid-autumn 1986
- Fall Migration Update 1986
- Grackles 1986
Sound Recordings
- Northern Waterthrush: 17 songs 2024
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker: 7 1/2 minutes of drumming and calls 2024
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker drumming: 5 sets 2024
- LeConte's Sparrow, 8 Songs 2023
- Over an hour of morning song at raspberry bushes 2022
- Mid-morning, 2 hours outside office window 2022
- Wood Thrush! 2021
- Fifty Minutes of Evening Grosbeaks! 2021
- Mid-April Dawn Chorus 2021
- Common Grackle: 1 minute 2021
- Dawn Chorus, May 31, 2020 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 23, 2020 2020
- Morning Song: May 7 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 4 2020
- Backyard Dawn Chorus, April 30 2020
- Persistent Young American Redstart 2019
- Dawn chorus in Minocqua, Wisconsin 2009