Common grackle,

Oct 6, 2020, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.



They can be a nuisance when flocks decent on the feeders and empty them and chase off the smaller birds but they are a pretty bird, one at a time.

Quiscalus quiscula
Those raggedy figures out in cornfields may be called scare-crows, but grackles are the #1 threat to corn. They eat ripening corn as well as corn sprouts, and their habit of foraging in big flocks means they have a multimillion dollar impact.

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