SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Deep in the heart of the Walmart parking lot on Shreveport Bossier Highway, every day is a fight for survival as Great-tailed grackles fight over scraps. Parking lot ...

Leggy and sharp-eyed, Common Grackles (along with their larger, showier relatives, Great-tailed Grackles and Boat-tailed ...

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. We've ...

Some of the more common birds we see here in Texas are the grackles. You can hardly walk through a supermarket parking lot without seeing one of these brown or black birds peering out at you from ...

Grackles — they’re those noisy, gregarious, black birds that seem to be everywhere. That’s about as much attention as we pay to them. But there is a world of fascinating behavior and social structures ...

A swarm of grackles in downtown Houston. But some had another favorite, and that includes the organization’s own resident ornithologist, Dr. Richard Gibbons. Sign up for the Hello, Houston! daily ...

January isn't just the season for New Year's resolutions and returning the holiday gifts that you're not crazy about. It also seems to be the time of year when Texans start to notice giant flocks of ...

Winter is a slower time for birding. There isn't as much to see. So, when rare birds pay a visit, they get a royal welcome. Thankfully, birders with cabin fever had some interesting options as we ...

It took a customized headpiece to monitor when and how much a grackle blinked in flight. By Elizabeth Preston When Jessica Yorzinski chased great-tailed grackles across a field, it wasn’t a contest to ...

Texas is home to more birds in the U.S. than any other state. With more than 600 species to see, there are quite a few that share the same gothic appearance as the blackbird. However, blackbirds ...