Like the common grackle, in the sunlight, they appear to have a blue/purplish ... “The head and parts of the bird’s wing still have brown juvenile feathers, but the black adult feathers ...

Common grackles show more complex and brighter iridescence patterns than the Brewer’s, with a characteristic abrupt break in color from the head iridescence to that of the body. Breeding Bird ...

My friend John loved grackles. He believed that, to be true to the oft-trumpeted independent Texas spirit, we should change our state bird ... midnight blue, black and a brilliant emerald.