Great-tailed Grackle Images, Facts and Information:
Quiscalus mexicanus
- Great-tailed Grackles are large, noisy blackbirds with long tails and long, sturdy bills. Males have yellow eyes, glossy black plumage with blue to purple iridescence. Females are about half the size of males and are a rich brown.
- The range of Great-tailed Grackles is very rapidly expanding, historically they were found as far north as southern Texas, I have seen them now as far north as southern Montana.
- Great-tailed Grackles eat grains, fruits, and in summer they will eat insects, bees, wasps, snails, worms, slugs, moths, small mammals, frogs, lizards, fish, bird eggs and nestlings. They will also eat food dropped in urban areas.
- Their preferred habitats include fields, marshes, agricultural and urban areas, farmyards, feedlots, forests, chaparral, parks and neighborhood lawns in the southwest, Texas, the Great Plains and now the Great Basin up towards Montana then south into Mexico and Central America.
- Great-tailed Grackles lay 3 to 4 eggs which take 13 to 14 days to hatch. The female incubates.
- Great-tailed Grackles can live up to 13 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Great-tailed Grackle photos.
Male Great-tailed Grackle and weathervane
Title: Male Great-tailed Grackle and weathervane
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 11/10/2022
Female Great-tailed Grackle looking intensely at something
Title: Female Great-tailed Grackle looking intensely at something
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/8/2022
Male Great-tailed Grackle Bill-Up display
Title: Male Great-tailed Grackle Bill-Up display
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/8/2022
Male Great-tailed Grackle calling portrait
Title: Male Great-tailed Grackle calling portrait
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/8/2022
Displaying male Great-tailed Grackle portrait
Title: Displaying male Great-tailed Grackle portrait
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/8/2022
Spring male Great-tailed Grackle close up
Title: Spring male Great-tailed Grackle close up
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/8/2022
Male Great-tailed Grackle preening a tail feather
Title: Male Great-tailed Grackle preening a tail feather
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/4/2022
Great-tailed Grackle male in a pine close up
Title: Great-tailed Grackle male in a pine close up
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/17/2022
Post-bath wet male Great-tailed Grackle portrait
Title: Post-bath wet male Great-tailed Grackle portrait
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/15/2022
Calling male Great-tailed Grackle during a breeding display
Title: Calling male Great-tailed Grackle during a breeding display
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/15/2022
Great-tailed Grackle male in a breeding display posture
Title: Great-tailed Grackle male in a breeding display posture
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/15/2022
Late winter Great-tailed Grackle male displaying
Title: Late winter Great-tailed Grackle male displaying
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/15/2022
Adult Great-tailed Grackle male displaying
Title: Adult Great-tailed Grackle male displaying
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/15/2022
Displaying male Great-tailed Grackle in late winter
Title: Displaying male Great-tailed Grackle in late winter
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/15/2022
Male Great-tailed Grackle displaying on a late winter morning
Title: Male Great-tailed Grackle displaying on a late winter morning
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/15/2022
Four Great-tailed Grackle males displaying
Title: Four Great-tailed Grackle males displaying
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/15/2022
Two male Great-tailed Grackle males displaying
Title: Two male Great-tailed Grackle males displaying
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/15/2022
Male Great-tailed Grackle displaying with a prize in its bill
Title: Male Great-tailed Grackle displaying with a prize in its bill
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/15/2022
Female Great-tailed Grackle resting on rushes
Title: Female Great-tailed Grackle resting on rushes
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/15/2022
Male Great-tailed Grackle after a bath
Title: Male Great-tailed Grackle after a bath
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 3/15/2022