Large, lanky songbird with a long V-shaped tail, long legs, and a long, pointed bill. Adult males are glossy black overall with an iridescent purple sheen on the head. Individuals in Florida and along the Gulf Coast have a dark eye.
Large and lanky with a long tail and bill. Females are dark brown above and russet below, with a subtle face pattern made up of a pale eyebrow, dark cheek, and pale mustache stripe.
Walks slowly over the ground or in shallow water, pecking or probing at soil, litter, or low vegetation typically near salt and freshwater areas along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Immature males are pale below and dark above with a dark eyeline and pale mustache stripe.
Eye color ranges from dull brown along the western Gulf Coast to bright yellow along the Atlantic Coast.
Large and lanky with a long tail and bill. Females are dark brown above and russet below, with a subtle face pattern made up of a pale eyebrow, dark cheek, and pale mustache stripe.
Males display by holding their bills straight into the air. Gregarious year-round.
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Boat-tailed Grackles are large, lanky songbirds with rounded crowns, long legs, and fairly long, pointed bills. Males have very long tails that make up almost half their body length and that they typically hold folded in a V-shape, like the keel of a boat.
Smaller than a Fish Crow; larger than a Common Grackle.
between robin and crowAlong the western Gulf Coast, Boat-tailed Grackles have dull, brownish eyes. Along the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf Coast west to Mississippi, Boat-tailed Grackles have bright yellow eyes.
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