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The male great-tailed grackle is a medium-sized, noisy black bird with shimmering iridescent purple and black feathers and an impressive tail. The brown females are roughly half the size of males. They can be found on golf courses, fields, lawns, and marshes throughout the Southwest, southern Great Plains and on […]

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