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 ...

Last week, I told you about a mysterious sound in the night that goes sproinnnnggggg! That rather unsettling sound coming from above and outside in the darkness was always a bit unsettling. I had ...

Some consider the great-tailed grackle among the more pesky birds, but the black birds are smarter than one might think. Some researchers rank them right up there with crows, which are known for their ...

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 ...

This Halloween, you do not need a big budget horror film to get your fear fix in North Texas. The sound of thousands of birds massed together in a grocery store parking lot — perched on cars, hopping ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

‘Tis the season, but that white stuff falling from the sky might not be snow. Each year around this time, hundreds of thousands of grackles gather to roost around the city. Most of the time these ...

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 ...