grackle
Gracula latin

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.