You get to know a grackle by its clicking sound.

All the grackles had flown, it seemed, and the telephone lines were bare.

Grackles at outdoor eating areas often wait eagerly until someone drops some food.

Purple grackles walked over the ground, searching for food.

Private pilots chattered like grackles on a telephone line.

She had a voice like a grackle.

Grackles flew up, spooked from their hiding place, upset about having to find other shelter.

The eye color of the Boat-tailed Grackle varies with range.

This bird is often mistaken for the Common Grackle but has a shorter tail.

Creaker the Grackle with the sun shining on him was truly beautiful.

Grackles tend to congregate in large groups, popularly referred to as a plague.

Great Tailed Grackles have also moved in similar fashion northward.

Winthrop is known as the "Grackle City of the World."

"However, a number of songbirds who forage on open ground, such as starlings and grackles, do walk," she said.

'Joe, there's a grackle in here wants to buy The Independent.

The grackles devoured it in a day.

A Grackle is a bird that lives around North and South America.

Like all Quiscalus grackles, it is a rather large, gregarious bird.

Birds to be found regularly in the area are grackles, cardinals, hummingbirds and chickadees.

With the auditory association area, you decipher the sounds - human greeting or vexed grackle?

Two grackles squawked and glided across an opening.

A third grackle came and stuck itself in the bird-lime on Effie's head-garden.

Now that I thought of it, I had conjured dead fish and turned myself into a grackle.

Then again, it occurred to me that there might be some situations that required spells other than grackles and dead fish.

"A grackle is a type of blackbird."

They have bowing courtship displays, whereas Gracula has no visual display.

Acridotheres mynas are also much more terrestrial than Gracula.

Gracula is a genus of mynas, tropical members of the starling family of birds.

Gracula (mynas)

S. kirmsei - hill mynah (Gracula religiosa)

The largest starling, going on standard measurements and perhaps weight, is the Nias Hill Myna (Gracula robusta).

This is apparently not entirely correct, with Scissirostrum closer to Aplonis than to Gracula for example, and Acridotheres among the most advanced genera.

The Enggano Hill Myna or Enggano Myna (Gracula enganensis) is a member of the starling family.

Until recently only two species were recognised, G. religiosa and G. ptilogenys; earlier still all Gracula were considered to belong to a very variable species commonly called Hill Myna.

The White-vented Myna has an extremely liquid voice and, like the European starling, incorporates imitation into its repertoire (though it is not able to imitate the human voice, like the Hill Myna Gracula religiosa).

The common hill myna (Gracula religiosa), sometimes spelled "mynah" and formerly simply known as hill myna, is the myna bird most commonly seen in aviculture, where it is often simply referred to by the latter two names.

Birds that can imitate humans, such as the Indian Hill myna (Gracula religiosa), imitate human speech by mimicking the various speech formants, created by changing the shape of the human vocal tract, with different vibration frequencies of its internal tympaniform membrane.

They resemble the hill mynas (Gracula) with which they often co-occur, in having large white or buff wing patches which are obvious in flight and in some also naked areas on the head, but differ in that only the head plumage is glossy, and the underparts tend to be paler.

A mynah bird stood on the back of a chair watching me.

The mynah bird was in his cage, safe and whole.

He really was the most amazing creature, that mynah bird.

The two played together in a group called the Mynah Birds.

"What you do is not thinking any more than the pronouncements of a mynah bird.

The only screaming you heard was from the mynah bird in the bakery."

Also central to the series is a minimalist and expressionless mynah bird.

It was just being like a mynah bird.

On his back was a black mynah bird that remained silent as he hitched a ride.

The mynah bird hopped from chair back to sofa section until he was finally looking down at the cat.

He was often joined on air by his mynah bird Alfie.

The mynah bird added something impressively foul in tones of sympathy.

You might turn into a vampire mynah bird."

Then the unusual mynah bird tucked his head under his wing and went to sleep.

The mynah bird has had various cameos in later Warner Brothers works.

Bobby is having a bad day and sees the mynah bird caged in a pet shop.

During his stay, he introduced a number of plants to Hawaii, as well as deer and mynah birds.

Mynah birds are sometimes better talkers than parrots and this one seems unusually smart.

Several of the remaining members continued to perform as the Mynah Birds throughout 1966, but did not make any recordings.

Only to get her nails into my Joseph she will repeat any rubbish he talks, like one stupid mynah bird.

At the words "John Silver" and "painting" the sleepy mynah bird stirred.

However, they are not alone for long as Aunt Lucy comes to live with them, along with her talking mynah bird.

"He probably said that thinking if he called it a mynah bird it would confuse you," Jupiter suggested.

She and Davidson once owned a mynah bird named Pharoah.

The two things that brought him happiness were his MG car and a mynah bird, both of which he pampered like babies.

The two played together in a group called the Mynah Birds.

The mynah is featured in some tales for its ability to talk and imitate sounds.

The most noticeable bird was the Indian mynah.

The Bali mynah often gathers in groups when it is young to better locate food and watch out for predators.

People often have colorful birds such as parrots and mynahs as pets.

The merchant had gone on his business trip leaving behind his wife in the company of a mynah and a parrot.

Only the strange, shrill calling of mynahs and parakeets.

The wife strangles the mynah for advising her not to indulge in any illicit affair.

Several of the remaining members continued to perform as the Mynah Birds throughout 1966, but did not make any recordings.

China, a mynah, and India, a rosella, share the third cage.

Indian mynahs were common and we saw several strange-looking mutants with bald yellow heads.

The Common Mynah has also been observed predating nests.

Among the star imitators are parrots, mockingbirds, mynahs and starlings.

I echo like a mynah, that's why.

The birds, I learn, are mimics, known in Elizabethan times as "the poor man's mynah."

Commonly seen species include the mynah, rock dove, bulbul and buzzard.

"Mynahs don't just imitate words," Doug informed her.

Mynahs and egrets both eat invertebrates from the rhino's skin and around its feet.

The myna or mynah is a bird of the starling family (Sturnidae).

In early 1966, the Mynah Birds were signed to Motown Records.

"See that Bali mynah?

Ellsworth started out as Goofy's pet mynah bird but in later stories he became an independent anthropomorphic animal.

In early 1965, he left to join The Mynah Birds and met Neil Young.

The Mynah Birds signed a seven-year deal with Motown Records in 1966.

This might erroneously imply to some readers that mynahs (another accepted spelling) are not related to starlings and therefore to be contrasted with them.

They have bowing courtship displays, whereas Gracula has no visual display.

Acridotheres mynas are also much more terrestrial than Gracula.

Gracula is a genus of mynas, tropical members of the starling family of birds.

Gracula (mynas)

S. kirmsei - hill mynah (Gracula religiosa)

The largest starling, going on standard measurements and perhaps weight, is the Nias Hill Myna (Gracula robusta).

This is apparently not entirely correct, with Scissirostrum closer to Aplonis than to Gracula for example, and Acridotheres among the most advanced genera.

The Enggano Hill Myna or Enggano Myna (Gracula enganensis) is a member of the starling family.

Until recently only two species were recognised, G. religiosa and G. ptilogenys; earlier still all Gracula were considered to belong to a very variable species commonly called Hill Myna.

The White-vented Myna has an extremely liquid voice and, like the European starling, incorporates imitation into its repertoire (though it is not able to imitate the human voice, like the Hill Myna Gracula religiosa).

The common hill myna (Gracula religiosa), sometimes spelled "mynah" and formerly simply known as hill myna, is the myna bird most commonly seen in aviculture, where it is often simply referred to by the latter two names.

Birds that can imitate humans, such as the Indian Hill myna (Gracula religiosa), imitate human speech by mimicking the various speech formants, created by changing the shape of the human vocal tract, with different vibration frequencies of its internal tympaniform membrane.

They resemble the hill mynas (Gracula) with which they often co-occur, in having large white or buff wing patches which are obvious in flight and in some also naked areas on the head, but differ in that only the head plumage is glossy, and the underparts tend to be paler.

It is also generally not included among those species which are often (and probably correctly) placed in 'Acridotheres'.

The following species are often included in the Acridotheres mynas:

The following is a list of "core" Acridotheres species in taxonomic order:

It is sometimes placed in the myna genus Acridotheres.

Acridotheres mynas are also much more terrestrial than Gracula.

At about 29 cm length, it is somewhat larger than the common myna (Acridotheres tristis).

Like most starlings, the Acridotheres mynas are fairly omnivorous, eating fruit, nectar and insects.

Several species from the paraphyletic Sturnus assemblage are often placed in Acridotheres.

The Acridotheres mynas are generally dark or dull birds with and fluted calls like most starlings; the sexes are similar.

The park is also home to common introduced species such as the Indian Myna (Acridotheres tristis).

Unusual pox lesions found in Chinese jungle mynahs (Acridotheres cristatellus).

Acridotheres is a genus of starlings, the "typical" mynas, which are tropical members of the family Sturnidae.

Acridotheres: Greek akris, akrodos, a locust; theres, a hunter.

Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus.

It forages on the ground among grass for insects, and especially for grasshoppers, from which it gets the generic name Acridotheres, "grasshopper hunter".

Bank Myna (Acridotheres ginginianus) is a myna found in South Asia.

Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis)

Acridotheres tristis tristis (Linnaeus, 1758).

Pale-bellied Myna Acridotheres cinereus in Sarawak.

The Jungle Myna (Acridotheres fuscus) is a myna, a member of the starling family.

Usually, it is placed in the genus Sturnus, but sometimes it is united with the typical mynas in Acridotheres.

The Black-winged Starling (Acridotheres melanopterus) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.

The Crested Myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) is a species of starling native to southeastern China and Indochina.

Common myna (Acridotheres tristis) Myna birds were introduced as a way of tackling parasites on cattle, now absent from Ascension.

Common Myna birds (Acridotheres tristis) roost in the branches of the tree at sunset, causing a cacophony of bird cries as the evening approaches.