Conservation Issues

The Common Grackle is a familiar sight throughout the state of Ohio. Individuals overwinter, yet become increasingly common as the spring months progress. Nuisance groups of the bird are sometimes destroyed for feeding and roosting in agricultural crops.

The species is rarely a host to cowbird parasitism (when cowbirds remove common grackle eggs from the nest and lay their own).

Photo courtesy Dr. Hays Cummins, Miami University