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Boat-tailed Grackle Range Map

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Range Map for Boat-tailed Grackle

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Migration

Year-round resident. Most individuals spend their lives within about 10 miles of their birthplace. The longest recorded movement comes from a second-year male that was banded in Charleston, South Carolina, and recovered in Daytona Beach, Florida, about 320 miles away by land.

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