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 ...

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 ...

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 ...