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How the Grackle Got His Name

He's not so named for his drywall skills nor his love of using spackle
(Whilst, of course, there is no job that he is loathe to tackle!)
Nor was he christened so because his flaming soul doth crackle
Or for the fact that lock or chain could never serve to shackle
One as he who has the stealth and slyness of a jackal
Yeah, hale and hearty this one treads 'midst gabbling clucks and quackle
Of dabbling ducks and quail upon whose heads is seen a hackle
Attending neither church nor mosque nor any tabernacle
He never flirts with Tarot cards or items zodiacal
No vicious blow, no savage punch, no overwhelming whack'll
Cause his sturdy wings to ache (Though at times, of course, his back'll!)
Not heretofore what you have heard wherefore was named the grackle
His handle was awarded for his tendency to cackle.
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Stephen Cole

Tom Cole Some people just hate for no reason. 

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Jenny Turner

I love the calls and flight patterns the grackles give us.

During the many years I worked in downtown Tempe, I loved watching and listening to them as I drove up Mill Avenue in the early mornings.

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Tom Cole

Jenny Turner A dreary place would the world be without them.

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Jenny Turner

Tom Cole agreed

• Tom Ferguson

  They are good birds and fun to watch. I think they are like people very social, and nosy, and noisy. I often wonder where they nest because I don't often notice a grackle nest. I wonder where they go to die because I don't often see evidence of them as victims of predators, as road kill or even see their corpses.

  

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  Joanie Johnson Hartman

  I appreciate their gregariousness.

  

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  Sally Cole

  If they’d knock off the whistling I might like them

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  Tom Cole

  Sally Coleyou are breaking post rules. and they whistle beautifully!

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This above was the day I showed Richard Dawkins
his FIRST great-tailed grackle.