> I still wouldn't know what a grackle was.
Looks a bit like a blackbird, although it isn't related to the
European bird of that name
(http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/Photo/Images/h5110pi.jpg).
They originally preferred open country, but many species now spend
most of their time in city parks being noisy and irritating
(http://birds.cornell.edu/BOW/COMGRA/comgra.wav). They tend to eat
agricultural seeds a lot, which doesn't exactly make them popular
with farmers. There are a number of species, of which the Mexican one
(also found in Texas) is arguably the most obnoxious. They are
technically songbirds, but I suspect they were among the birds
punished by Vrimak for treachery in the Darkness, as per the myth in
Anaxial's Roster.
Trotsky
Powered by hypermail
