Mating Dance of the Great-tailed Grackle

A big, brash blackbird, the male Great-tailed Grackle shimmers in iridescent black and purple, and trails a tail that will make you look twice. The rich brown females are about half the male’s size. Flocks of these long-legged, social birds strut and hop on suburban lawns, golf courses, fields, and marshes in Texas, the Southwest, and southern Great Plains.

In courtship and territorial display, male perches in the open, fluffs out feathers, partly spreads wings and tail, rapidly...

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From: Natalia Goncharova

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Birds Red-whiskered bulbul: Purebred birds in cage 5 months singing good

- Birds Red-whiskered bulbul: Purebred birds in cage 5 months singing good.

- The red-whiskered bulbul is about 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in length. It has brown upper-parts and whitish underparts with buff flanks and a dark spur running onto the breast at shoulder level. It has a tall pointed black crest, red face patch and thin black moustachial line. The tail is long and brown with white terminal feather tips, but the vent area is red.

The loud and evocative call is a sharp kink-a-joo (also...

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From: World birdsong

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