Sandesh Kadur / Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) roosting on electric lines along Highway 77, Brownsville, Texas, USA. March

Patricio Robles Gil / Great tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) in water, Yucatan, Mexico

Rolf Nussbaumer / Great tailed grackle, male {Quiscalus mexicanus} Texas, USA

Cyril Ruoso / Great tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) displaying, South Texas, USA, April.

Cyril Ruoso / Great tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) displaying on telephone wire, South Texas, USA, April.

Glenn Bartley / Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) male, Texas

Alan Murphy / Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) male, Texas

Glenn Bartley / Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) male, Texas

Glenn Bartley / Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) female, Texas

Cyril Ruoso / Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) males displaying, southern Texas

B&S Draker / Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus), flock at sunset. Welder Wildlife Refuge, Sinton, Texas, USA, February.

David Welling / Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) female in tree, Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA, May

David Kjaer / Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) male, Texas, USA

Rolf Nussbaumer / Profile of male Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) New Braunfels, Texas, USA. April 2001

Rolf Nussbaumer / Female Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) on flowering Retama (Parkinsonia aculeata) Willacy County, Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA. May 2004

Alan Murphy/ BIA / Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) male, Texas

Rolf Nussbaumer / Great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) male perched in tree. South Padre Island, Texas, USA.