Boat-Tailed Grackle (Quiscalus major)

Boat-Tailed Grackle, Quiscalus major

West Palm Beach, FL
2015-12-19

Boat-tailed Grackle is a new world blackbird of the family Icteridae. Its name came from its fan shaped tail, which distinguish boat-tailed grackle from common grackle whose tail is shorter.

Other Icteridae species:

Red-Winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceus

Brewer's Blackbird
Euphagus cyanocephalus

Western Meadowlark
Sturnella neglecta

Common Grackle
Quiscalus quiscula