Great-tailed Grackles Hovered Over Floating Sargassum to Catch Swimming Crabs
During more than 13 hours of observation across 12 days on Cozumel, Mexico, great-tailed grackles made 57 flights…
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Great-tailed Grackle Is Now Known from 44 of Arkansas’s 75 Counties
A 2026 Arkansas review documents Great-tailed Grackle from 44 of 75 counties, while breeding and year-round populations are…
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Great-tailed Grackles Now Breed Widely and Winter Regularly in Nebraska
A 2026 Nebraska synthesis documents the species' expansion from isolated records in the 1970s to widespread breeding and…
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Nuclear DNA Supports One Unified Great-tailed Grackle Lineage
A genome-scale study resolves a long-standing conflict between mitochondrial and nuclear evidence and finds no signal of admixture…
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Remote Feeders Test How Grackles Unlearn a Winning Choice
An ongoing Santa Barbara field experiment reverses food rewards to measure how quickly wild great-tailed grackles update learned…
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