froggieslightroom: Grackle giving quite the serious stink eyed…

Saturday, April 26th, 2014

froggieslightroom:

Grackle giving quite the serious stink eyed looked. They aren’t the kindest species of birds, but their feathers are quite the color combination.

Taken on 26-04-2014.
Canon 550D, 500mm, F7.1, 1/400, ISO 3200, and edited with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Photo by Joanna. 

Haha, thanks! I suspect this is a Common Grackle, because of the contrast between the multi-hued iridescence on the body and the bluish iridescence on the head and neck. (Boat-tailed is supposed to be more uniformly purple-blue, per Sibley.)

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flameysaur: halfwayinlight: Does anyone know what kind of bird…

Friday, April 25th, 2014

flameysaur:

halfwayinlight:

Does anyone know what kind of bird this is? It was strutting by the drive through like it owned the place. Is it a blackbird? Raven? Crow? Rook?? The deep blue looked so striking against the black feathers.

lies, I’m sure you know.

It would help to know where the OP took the photo, but seeing a reference to “tornado country” in a previous post, I’m going to assume we’re talking middle America/Great Plains/Texas and parts north of there.

Pretty sure that’s a male grackle, either a Common Grackle (which would be about 12.5 inches in overall length) or a Great-tailed Grackle (about 18 inches). The color looks a little better for Great-tailed to me, but if the OP knows even roughly how big it was that’s probably the best way to distinguish between them.

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