Amazing Grackle Mating and Territory Competition

Male Boat-Tailed Grackles blink their eyes continuously flashing their nictitating membranes to achieve a black and white signal effect, hold their heads high with pride, flap their wings, and sing their hearts out all to win territory and breeding rights with the cute little brown female Grackles. These grackles live in the extensive Florida marshland where solid ground and trees are a rare commodity and their mating customs according to the literature is pretty complicated and not totally understood. In t