A pale brown grackle is just starting to get the adult blue-purple in its wings as it perches on a feeder pole.
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Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), 7th August 2024
es: Zanate Común, fr: Quiscale Bronzé
IUCN: Near Threatened
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 1120mm, 1/400s, f/14, ISO 10000
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Two multicolored birds stand on wintry branches; one with a purplish head puffs out chest, wings and tail as it squawks; the other, slim and with a greener head, looks on impassive. Both have gold-brown bodies.
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Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), 24th March 2023
es: Zanate Común, fr: Quiscale Bronzé
IUCN: Near Threatened
Danehy Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 60% crop, 1/640s, ISO 3200
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A blue-headed blackbird with a bronzed body and long broad tail gazes out to sea from a wooden mooring post.
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Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), 9th May 2024
es: Zanate Común, fr: Quiscale Bronzé
IUCN: Near Threatened
Canalfront Park, Lewes, Delaware
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 560mm, 75% crop, 1/400s, f/11, ISO 640
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A large blackbird grasps the edge of a low birdbath with one talon. Its body is graduated in subtle tones from blue-green to purple to brown.
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Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), 5th June 2024
es: Zanate Común, fr: Quiscale Bronzé
IUCN: Near Threatened
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 892mm, 55% crop, 1/250s, f/13, ISO 3200
#Birds #CommonGrackle #COGR #BirdOfTheDay #HopeIsTheThingWithFeathers
Five major US higher-ed associations have written an open letter to Jay Bhattacharya, director of the #NIH, asking that he "direct the reinstatement of all grants that NIH has terminated under agency directives found by a
federal court to be unlawful." […]
A black bird with iridescent bluish-green head and neck is perched on a tree branch in the spring sunlight, looking over its shoulder to the left.
Common Grackle in all its iridescent glory on a fine spring day.
Fredericton, #NewBrunswick, Canada
May 2024
📷 #birds #grackle #COGR #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A blue-headed bird on a wintry branch stretches itself to be long and thin, from its long dark tail to its robust gray beak.
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Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), 24th March 2023
es: Zanate Común, fr: Quiscale Bronzé
IUCN: Near Threatened
Danehy Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 35% crop, 1/640s, ISO 3200
#Birds #CommonGrackle #COGR #HopeIsTheThingWithFeathers
A lot of people don't really know what "indirect costs" are.
It is what pays for the staff that support libraries, compliance, safety, and the infrastructure for safe, functional research facilities.
Thanks to #COGR, #APLU, #AAU, #AAMC, and #AIRI for this visual representation.
Proving that they can and will use any birdfeeder, a blue-headed, brown adult grackle clings to the underside of a horizontal suet feeder, pulling large fragments into a long pointy beak.
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Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), 16th June 2023
es: Zanate Común, fr: Quiscale Bronzé
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 1/640s, ISO 6400
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In one of the worst examples of animal stealth ever recorded, the yellow eye of a Grackle peers out from behind a tube feeder; its coppery rump and tail stick far out the other side.
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Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), 24th April 2023
es: Zanate Común, fr: Quiscale Bronzé
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 60% crop, 1/640s, ISO 2000
#Birds #CommonGrackle #COGR #HopeIsTheThingWithFeathers #DescribeYourImages
A black glossy bird with iridescent blue around its neck on head is perched on a bare, lichen-covered tree branch with its wings and feathers puffed out in mating display.
This Common Grackle sure was putting on a show for me. (Too bad he was so far away! This is cropped as much as I dare to.)
Jemseg, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2024
📸 #birds #grackle #COGR #nature #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor180600
Two metallic brownish birds with copper-green heads face each other on short-cropped grass, in somewhat formalized poses.
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Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), 24th March 2023
es: Zanate Común, fr: Quiscale Bronzé
Danehy Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 35% crop, 1/640s, ISO 2500
#Birds #CommonGrackle #COGR #HopeIsTheThingWithFeathers #DescribeYourImages
Common Grackle letting its iridescent personality shine through.
Jemseg, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2024
📷 #birds #grackle #COGR #nature #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor180600
