Boat-tailed Grackle Images, Facts and Information:
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- Boat-tailed Grackles are large dark birds with long keel-shaped tails. Males have iridescent blues and black in their plumage with yellow or brown eyes. Females are smaller than males and have dark brown upperparts, pale brown underparts, and yellow eyes.
- Some Boat-tailed Grackles migrate although most do not. They can be found along the Gulf Coast from Texas east to Florida and north along the Atlantic Coast to New York. They are usually seen in in salt marshes.
- Boat-tailed Grackles eat small fish, snails, aquatic and terrestrial insects, frogs, small reptiles, shrimp, bird eggs, fruits, berries, and seeds.
- Boat-tailed Grackles lay 3 to 5 eggs which hatch in 12 days. The females incubate and they are promiscuous, colonial nesters.
- Boat-tailed Grackles can live to be more than 13 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Boat-tailed Grackle photos.
Mia McPherson
Male Boat-tailed Grackle on a lake shore
Title: Male Boat-tailed Grackle on a lake shore
Location: Lake Carillon, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/9/2009
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Female Boat-tailed Grackle
Title: Female Boat-tailed Grackle
Location: Lake Carillon, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/9/2009
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Posing Great-tailed Grackle
Title: Posing Great-tailed Grackle
Location: Lake Carillon, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 5/9/2009
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Male Boat-tailed Grackle portrait
Title: Male Boat-tailed Grackle portrait
Location: Celery Fields, Sarasota County, Florida
Date: 1/18/2009
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Close up of a male Boat-tailed Grackle
Title: Close up of a male Boat-tailed Grackle
Location: Celery Fields, Sarasota County, Florida
Date: 1/18/2009
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Boat-tailed Grackle male
Title: Boat-tailed Grackle male
Location: Celery Fields, Sarasota County, Florida
Date: 1/18/2009