For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

Some of the more common birds we see here in Texas are the grackles. You can hardly walk through a supermarket parking lot without seeing one of these brown or black birds peering out at you from ...

These medium-sized, lanky birds have glossy dark feathers. Their heads look blue or purple in the light, in contrast to their ...

The next time you walk out of a grocery store to find your freshly waxed car spotted with white blobs of bird poop and curse the glossy obsidian-hued birds nesting on a power line above your head, I ...

‘Tis the season, but that white stuff falling from the sky might not be snow. Each year around this time, hundreds of thousands of grackles gather to roost around the city. Most of the time these ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The photos are all over social media, with comparisons never far behind to the Alfred Hitchcock thriller, "The Birds." Yes, we're talking about the Great-tailed Grackle. We've ...

Few birds are so despised as the lowly grackle, a noisy omnivore that threatens farmers with its taste for corn and annoys city officials with its habit of congregating in enormous flocks in ...

Grackles have been prancing around my lawn this week showing off their iridescence as they search for grubs and other fodder. The grackles are large, black, conspicuous – and almost always unwelcome ...

Harry Thomas learned the hard way how great-tailed grackles can make parking in downtown San Antonio a real crappy experience. One evening during his first year as a temp at the Express-News, the ...

Last week’s high water came up just more than 3 feet in the basement in my 14-by-18-foot "duck shack." Fortunately, my cabin next door is well above flood level, making it a great place to watch ...

Birds such as crows and ravens may have a bad rap thanks to superstitions and negative portrayals in popular culture, but they offer a lot more than fodder for scary stories. In fact, they're ...