Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
Above: A male Great-tailed Grackle in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas (4/2006).
Below: A female Great-tailed Grackle feasts on a dead fish at Gilbert Water Ranch (1/6/2007).
Below: A male Great-tailed Grackle in southern Arizona (8/4/2008).
Below: Not a crow! A Great-tailed Grackle is molting its tail feathers, much like our East Coast Boat-tailed Grackles and other blackbirds at this time of year. (Malibu Lagoon, California, 9/30/2011)