Beautiful Boat Tailed Grackle

The subtle beauty of a male Boat Tailed Grackle preening after a morning bath on the prairie.
This handsome male Boat-Tailed Grackle has just taken a bath in a Prairie watering hole where cattle graze in the interior of Central Florida. Now its time to dry in the sun and preen his beautiful feathers.
If you have only seen them in the cities you are in for a treat. Boat Tailed Grackles are actually quite stunning and intelligent birds when seen out in their natural wild habitat in the morning sun.

Their feathers constantly change colors and shimmer blue, green and purple.
They are primarily a bird of the southeast coastal areas and prefer marshes and wetlands.
In the Florida peninsula they are found inland often associated with large cattle grazing areas.
These birds forage on the ground, in shallow water, or in shrubs. They are omnivorous, eating insects, minnows, frogs, eggs, berries, seeds, and grain.

Grackles have established significant populations in Gulf and Atlantic Coast cities and towns where they can be found foraging in trash bins, dumpsters, and parking lots. But most of the grackles you see in cities are the smaller common grackles. Boat Tails are considerably larger with their huge, long boat tails. In interior Florida and the Gulf Coast their eyes are usually dark like this fellows – along the Atlantic coast the eyes are often yellow.

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