grackle
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- n glossy black Asiatic starling often taught to mimic speech
- n long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage
- The case of Austin's dead birds created an acrimonious divide between the pro- and anti- grackle camps.
- The scientific Seton could count the feathers on a grackle (4,915); the romantic Seton attributed human characteristics to crows, wolves and rabbits.
- He whipped up topcoats of grouse, full-length evening coats of grackle, blouses of speckled hen feathers and wove materials half in tweed and half in pin feathers.