Some of the more common birds we see here in Texas are the grackles. You can hardly walk through a supermarket parking lot without seeing one of these brown or black birds peering out at you from ...

The first common grackles arrived March 22 this year. We heard their high-pitched screeches, which sound like rusty hinges on a garden gate, and saw these blue jay-sized black-colored birds flying by.

These medium-sized, lanky birds have glossy dark feathers. Their heads look blue or purple in the light, in contrast to their bronzed iridescent bodies. In some parts of the southeast, their bodies ...

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 ...

They are everywhere, especially right now. Check out the video above that KHOU 11 reporter Brett Buffington recorded outside the Kroger store near Meyerland on Wednesday evening: "Ummmm... Who do I ...

Birds such as crows and ravens may have a bad rap thanks to superstitions and negative portrayals in popular culture, but they offer a lot more than fodder for scary stories. In fact, they're ...