HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The photos are all over social media, with comparisons never far behind to the Alfred Hitchcock thriller, "The Birds." Yes, we're talking about the Great-tailed Grackle. We've ...

While this week's featured creature, the common grackle, can be found in the Ada area year-round, it is more abundant during ...

FORT WORTH — On a recent sunny evening downtown, locals enjoying after-work beers were startled when a big black bird flew right into the bar and started eating peanuts off the pool table. The brazen ...

If you're from here, then you are well aware. But if you're new to North Texas, you might look on in wonder – why swarms of birds seemingly take over store parking lots and other places. With each ...

Because it's illegal to kill the noisy, iridescent black birds known as grackles, the second best option is to learn how to live with them. After all, we humans are the ones who create a utopia-like ...

SAN ANTONIO A war is being waged in downtown San Antonio nightly. Ground zero of this battle is a parking lot near the River Walk, where Jeff Cattoor of BlackJack Bird Abatement recently brought two ...

My friend John loved grackles. He believed that, to be true to the oft-trumpeted independent Texas spirit, we should change ...