The Boat-tailed Grackle is a very large, long-tailed blackbird of coastal marshes in the southeastern US. Males are iridescent black with enormously long, keel-shaped tails; females are brown. Unlike the nearly identical Great-tailed Grackle, the Boat-tailed has dark eyes in most of its range. Large, noisy colonies gather around marinas.
Best time to see a Boat-tailed Grackle
The best time to see a Boat-tailed Grackle is January–June, when about 64% of U.S. sightings happen, based on 36,545 research-grade iNaturalist observations.
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