Description
Went out to the fishing pier, to see dolphins (wich I did!) when this guy showed up.
A Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
Always super nice to see this bird!
Maybe not really special, but still a beautiful bird.
Fishing Pier, Jekyll Island, Georgia USA 15-07-2026
The great-tailed grackle or Mexican grackle is a medium-sized, highly social passerine bird native to North and South America. A member of the family Icteridae, it is one of 10 extant species of grackle and is closely related to the boat-tailed grackle and the extinct slender-billed grackle. In the southern United States, it is sometimes simply referred to as "blackbird" or (erroneously) "crow" due to its glossy black plumage, and similarly it is often called cuervo ("raven") in some parts of Mexico, although it is not a member of the crow genus Corvus, nor even of the family Corvidae.
Cassidix mexicanus, Cassidix mexicanus mexicanus, Corvus mexicanus, Megaquiscalus major, Megaquiscalus major macrourus, Megaquiscalus major major, Quiscalus macrourus, Quiscalus major, Quiscalus major macrourus, Quiscalus major major, Quiscalus mexicanus, Quiscalus mexicanus macrourus, Quiscalus mexicanus mexicanus
Clarinero, Clarinero Gande, Clarinero o zanate, Clarinero o zanate grande, Mariamulata, Zanate Grande, Zanate Mayor, Zanate Mexicano
Boat-tailed Grackle, Great-tailed Crow blackbird, Great-tailed Grackle, Great-tailed Grakle
Bootstaarttroepiaal, Langstaarttroepiaal
Troepiaal