Great-tailed Grackle

Description:

Abundant birds in rest stops and in city parks along this route. Males are a iridescent black with sturdy black bill. Long black tail that sometimes fans out. Eyes are yellow. Females are brown with pale eyes and are smaller then the males. They loud variable sound they make is like Red-winged blackbird but kicked up.

Habitat:

Usually found in flatlands around farms and cities.

Notes:

During breeding season most female blackbirds and grackles I've witness flying around me would have a bug in her bill, even when they were trying to warn me to leave