Two blackbirds, Great Tailed Grackles, at Lake Watson reservoir at the Granite Dells, in Prescott, Arizona. The great-tailed grackle or Mexican grackle Quiscalus mexicanus is a medium-sized, highly social passerine bird native to North and South America. A member of the family Icteridae, it is one of ten extant species of grackle and is closely related to the boat-tailed grackle and the slender-billed grackle.[2] It is sometimes erroneously referred to as a `blackbird` in the southern United States.
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