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carib grackle

  1. Displaying Grackle (3).jpg

    Displaying Grackle (3).jpg

    This image is at the most 2 seconds after the second one. Back towards a little more normal posture. Carib Grackle subspecies fortirostris.
  2. Displaying Grackle (2).jpg

    Displaying Grackle (2).jpg

    This is less than 1 second after the previous image, showing another posture of this bird. Carib Grackle subspecies fortirostris
  3. Carib Grackle (f)

    Carib Grackle (f)

  4. Carib Grackle (m)

    Carib Grackle (m)

  5. Carib Grackle (male)

    Carib Grackle (male)

  6. Carib Grackle

    Carib Grackle

    Ranging from Northern South America through the Lesser Antilles, this small, short-tailed grackle was locally common on our recent visit. Here on Barbados, the race "Q. l. fortirostris" is endemic although it has apparently been introduced to Barbuda and Antigua (and possibly St. Kitts). It is...
  7. Grackle in Barbados

    Grackle in Barbados

    This Carib Grackle was just like the Great-tailed Grackles we had met earlier in Mexico.
  8. Carib Grackles

    Carib Grackles

    Not surprisingly the locals call these birds Blackbirds.
  9. Carib Grackle

    Carib Grackle

    Carniverous, noisy black bird.
  10. Carib Grackle feeding juvanile Shiny cowbird

    Carib Grackle feeding juvanile Shiny cowbird

    A bit small than a grackle and the young is fed by the grackle as seen in photograph.
  11. Carib Grackle

    Carib Grackle

  12. Carib Grackle

    Carib Grackle

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