Great-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus mexicanus
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Troupials and Allies
Call and song
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About the Great-tailed Grackle
Large, lanky blackbird with flat crown and long tail. Males have ridiculously long tails, almost as long as their body, often held in a V-shape. Males are glossy black. Females are brown with paler eyebrow and throat. Eyes yellow to white; dusky for immatures. In coastal Texas, where its range overlaps with Boat-tailed Grackle, note habitat (more generalized as opposed to strictly saltmarsh) and pale eye (not brown).
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 29 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
