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| | AllRefer.com - grackle (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia |
 | | grackle, common name applied to some members of the New World family Icteridae, which also includes flbirds, orioles, meadowlarks, cowbirds, and others. |
 | | The bronzed grackle, which interbreeds with the purple, is found further inland and W to the Rocky Mts.; in the South are found the Florida and boat-tailed grackles, in Texas and Mexico the great-tailed grackles, or jackdaws. |
 | | Grackles are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Icteridae. |
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