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Need help with ID



This morning a "short-tailed grackle" showed up in my back yard.  It looked
similar for a common grackle--black or very dark brown with some
iridescence on the back and shoulders, yellow eye, black beak.  It also had
a spatter of brown markings on the side of the head behind the eye.  An
adult common grackle landed next to it on the ground so I was able to
compare the two birds side by side.  The tail of the bird in question was
short and squared off, not tapered like the tail of a comon grackle.

Is it too early for rusty blackbirds in this area?

Bob

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Robert C. Perkins, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 28311
910-630-7037     rperkins@methodist.edu