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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