Boat-tailed Grackle is a slightly smaller-tailed cousin to Great-tailed Grackle, and has a more easterly range. These birds are not afraid of humans and are often found scrounging or begging for scraps around picnic tables and outdoor restaurants, where many regard them as a nuisance. Females lack the namesake tails and bear little resemblance to the males.
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Boat-tailed Grackle
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL
April 30, 2005 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle – female
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL
April 10, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle – female
Green Cay Wetlands, Boynton Beach, FL
April 14, 2011 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL
February 20, 2012 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL
February 18, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle – female
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL
February 20, 2012 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle – female
Green Cay Wetlands, Boynton Beach, FL
March 4, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL
April, 2005 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL
February 18, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle – female
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL
April 10, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle fledgling
Green Cay Wetlands, Boynton Beach, FL
May 3, 2012 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL
March, 2005 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle – female
Green Cay Wetlands, Boynton Beach, FL
March 11, 2017 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle
STA-5, Hendry Couinty, FL
March 22, 2014 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle – female
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL
April 10, 2007 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle – leucistic female
Hypoluxo, FL
December 31, 2011 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle
STA-5, Hendry Couinty, FL
March 22, 2014 ©John Schwarz
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Boat-tailed Grackle – female
Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, FL
February 20, 2012 ©John Schwarz
I feed Great tailed grackles in my backyard. But they start acting strange, even refusing to eat when quail are in the yard. Are Great tailed grackles afraid of quail?
Not that I am aware of.