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- noun Plural form of
grackle .
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Examples
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The grackles, red wing blackbirds, robins and starlings were found last week.
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In 1999, several thousand grackles fell from the sky and staggered about before dying in north Louisiana.
Louisiana has mass bird deaths just days after Arkansas 2011
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Kit yelled, startling a flock of oil-colored grackles from the sunflower fields.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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The grackles, red wing blackbirds, robins and starlings were found last week.
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Scenes of the day — houses along the road, dog in the yard, grackles on telephone wire, huddled there for the winter wars, the steady whirr of a car, two children walking to the river — play out their pitiful narratives: stories that are really no story at all.
Short, Short, after a Morning with Raymond Carver Sam Rasnake 2011
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A few grackles and a couple of starlings were also among the dead.
Noises, fireworks apparently caused Ark. birds to fly into buildings and die 2011
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Kit yelled, startling a flock of oil-colored grackles from the sunflower fields.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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According to wildlife biologist Bill Gates, the birds are grackles, a common black bird, one of the same species reported in the past weeks to have been found dead in mass quantities in other nearby states like Arkansas, Louisiana and Kentucky.
Hundreds Of Dead Birds Found In Alabama The Huffington Post 2011
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Kit yelled, startling a flock of oil-colored grackles from the sunflower fields.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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He got caught in a downpour of ducats, having invented a slot machine that goes off like seagulls and grackles at war.
Las Vegas Dennis Mahagin 2011
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