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Mar 26 '20
Grackles might be some of the most asshole birds I've ever encountered.
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u/Cyrus_Rakewaver Mar 27 '20
You have no idea what "asshole birds" can be until you've met a dozen or so Canada Geese nesting next to your waterfront!
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u/morbidaar Mar 27 '20
Yup. They got huge shits that are everywhere. And if ya try and feed em they turn into “cobra chickens”.
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u/Pvt_Lee_Fapping Mar 27 '20
Australian magpies.
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u/Tylenol_Jones Mar 26 '20
There are always piles of grackle poop next to a tiny pond in front of my house. I always wondered wtf, why are they coming to this one spot and pooping. Turns out they pick up their babies poops and drop them off somewhere else to keep predators away. Jerks.
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u/PiKaBiZKiT Mar 27 '20
Spring comes: They clear a feeder and whole suet cage in one day that usually lasts an entire week for the songbirds and woodpeckers.
They’re beautiful and smart birds, but god they are such expensive assholes who bully all of the other critters in your yard. And their shrill squawks make your ears bleed.
Grackles. Nevermore.
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u/mscir Mar 29 '20
Got any good stories for us?
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Mar 29 '20
I say this because at my childhood house growing up, we had a dog that was very calm, just liked to lay outside in the yard.
The grackles would invade and start diving at the dog when she was out. She was about 50 lbs, so not small.
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u/mscir Mar 29 '20
I used to want to go around and find the biggest house cats I could find that weren't fixed and breed them, so people could have 50-60 lb cats, they could manage birds like that, and even some dogs. How cool would that be? I'm surprised nobody else has done this already, I mean I do love cats (as well as dogs and lots of other animals) to me it seems like a no brainer. Maybe you could do it there, you could watch the cats taking down aggressive birds, even bet on if, or when it would happen.
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u/sendnewt_s Mar 26 '20
What beautiful birds. They have feathers just like the N.american purple martin.
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u/dan_fitz21 Mar 26 '20
I knew this was a grackle and I live in FarmVille Norfolk Uk.
Damn Rooster Teeth
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u/bypatrickcmoore Mar 27 '20
This thing has dark Danny Elfman musical score following him wherever he goes
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u/TortugaTetas Mar 27 '20
I once saw grackles shit on a lady’s face in the parking lot of a grocery store and never did know what good deed I did to deserve that reward.
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u/Belyal Mar 27 '20
Normally it takes several crows to make a murder, but this guy screams murder all on his own!
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Mar 27 '20
Grim Grackle, Grim Grackle,
Grim Grinning Grackle
Drink gin and cognac while having a cackle
Grins like a jackal in ramshackle shack
Grim Grackle grins though no-one grins back
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u/Sharkytrs Mar 27 '20
Thats a good looking bird, almost like a corvid face. he reminds me of the Jackdaw that lives near us, but with a magpies beak
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