Boat-Tailed Grackle

If you’re lucky, you’ll see me more in the Publix parking lot than in your backyard. I’m a loud little piggie who will squawk his head off while cleaning out your feeders, all year round!  My name comes from my broad tail, which distinguishes me from other grackles.

Most Likely Found: At the beach, In the marsh, In your backyard

When: Year-Round

Where I've photographed: Circle B Bar Reserve, Gatorland Rookery, Lake Apopka, Lake Morton, Viera Wetlands

Read more: Boat-Tailed Grackle at Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Ebird: Boat-Tailed Grackle eBird range


I have written 14 posts including a photo of a Boat-Tailed Grackle

Posing Pretty

October 26, 2012 - ...On my last sunrise visit to Circle B, I turned around and found this grackle sitting on a post behind me.  She looked so pretty with her feathers glistening in the sun.  She just begged me to take her picture…and even if she’s “just a grackle,” I was happy to do so! Read more

One More from my Visit to the Circle B Bar Reserve

May 22, 2012 - ...One more post from Sunday’s trip to the Circle B Bar Reserve… There’s a new family of Sandhill Cranes out on Wading Bird Way. The adults had the colts out on a “vegetation island” while I was there. From the pictures posted on Flickr, it looks like they later brought the babies up onto the […] Read more

Signs of Spring at the Viera Wetlands

April 22, 2012 - ...Last weekend I spent a morning at the Viera Wetlands.  It was a cloudy morning, with sunshine in spurts, and I was just happy to be outside.  The Great Blue Herons chicks are growing up quickly, as I wrote about last week.  There were also many other signs of springtime around the wetlands.  Sometimes the […] Read more

Yellow-Billed Cuckoo on Marsh Rabbit Run!

August 5, 2011 - Bird Species List (21 total): American Coot, Anhinga, Black-Bellied Whistling Duck, Boat-tailed Grackle, Common Moorhen, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Killdeer, Limpkin, Little Blue Heron, Mourning Dove, Northern Bobwhite (heard), Northern Cardinal, Osprey, Purple Martin, Red-winged Blackbird, Sandhill Crane, Tricolored Heron, White Ibis, Wood Stork, Yellow-Billed Cuckoo... Read more

More Migrants at the Circle B Bar Reserve

August 29, 2010 - Adios, amigos As we walked Heron Hideout, we came across several Boat-Tailed Grackles.  Except they were molting, so most of them only had one or two feathers in their tails!  They looked pretty silly.  This one posed for me near a culvert, and he looked silliest of all -- his…... Read more