Sara Diggins is a visual journalist at the Austin American-Statesman, focused on local news and issues impacting Central Texas. She is particularly interested in stories about the environment, ...

A female great-tailed grackle foraging in a parking lot in Sacramento, California. The image may only be used in connection with reporting on the article/research by Corina Logan et al. (2023).

This week’s featured creature may be one of the most commonly seen birds, as nearly every Walmart parking lot is populated with them. The great-tailed grackle is quite common, and you’ve almost ...

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 ...

Behavioral flexibility, the ability to adapt one's behavior to changing circumstances based on previous experience, is thought to play an important role in a species' ability to successfully adapt to ...

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 ...

Like something out of a Hitchcock horror movie, they look and sound intimidating as they hunker down in seemingly infinite flocks. Perched on trees and utility lines, they cackle and wheeze and ...

Researchers find that behavioral flexibility is related to exploration, and that great-tailed grackles disperse farther at their range edge Behavioral flexibility, the ability to adapt one’s behavior ...