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grackle
a 10 inch long bird like a starling with iridescent black plumage, and a keel-like crease in its tail. Called also common grackle, American blackbird, Quiscalus quiscala.


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He tells his grandfather to imagine tremblers, grackles, finches in trees like these vanishing with the sound of a ten-foot wave breaking.
The birds, called Carib grackles, then snatched pellets from each other.
Black leaves in a charred tree, grackles bicker--their racket like the rattle of coal in a bucket.
 
 
 
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