Photo 14880634, (c) Vernon Fridy, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Vernon Fridy

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What

Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)

Observer

birdsage

Date

February 13, 2017 05:21 PM CST

Description

This was a wild animal that somehow ended up into the lemur exhibit at the Houston Zoo and I photographed it there. I previously thought that this could be a bird called the “Groove-billed Ani”, as the beak is very blurry and looked large to a bird-identification app called Merlin, which identified this as, along with the grackle, as said bird.
Of course the photo is blurry and the great-tailed grackle is more common in the area.

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