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US
/ˈɡɹækəɫ/
]
[ UK /ɡɹˈækəl/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈækəl/ ]
NOUN
- long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage
- glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech
How To Use grackle In A Sentence
- ‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’
- In this study, we focused on a group of birds within the family Icteridae termed the grackles and allies.
- Chickadees, cardinals, doves, and robins came and went, and a grackle made a racket in the woods.
- I went down towards the creek and found a huge flock of robins, grackles and red-winged blackbirds foraging.
- I went down towards the creek and found a huge flock of robins, grackles and red-winged blackbirds foraging.
- Above, a white stork stands surrounded by boat-tailed grackles in Lion Country Safari, a bird sanctuary in Palm Beach, Florida.
- Furthermore, human commensal species, such as great-tailed grackle Quiscalus mexiccanus and bronzed cowbird Molothrus aeneus, normally increase in number around human settlements and result in the loss of nesting success in other birds. Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belize
- Central Park is rife with robins, great with grackles, and burgeoning with blue jays.
- The western larks do not utter alarums of that kind, but a harsh "chack" instead, very similar to the call of the grackles. Birds of the Rockies
- We saw lots of catbirds, blackbirds, mockingbirds, cardinals, crows, and grackles.