Date: 2/16/26 6:00 pm From: Terry Miller <millert832...> Subject: Re: Great-tailed Grackles in Linn County.
I also had a "pure" flock of 260 birds on Jan. 3rd in Clay County (north of
Kansas City, south of Kearney) at a captive elk and deer ranch. There had
been a flock of Great-tailed Grackles in this area several years back but
that was by far the largest flock I have seen. At that time, there was
also a medium-sized pond, about 2 miles away, that had thick cattails
around the entire bankline. It had nesting birds there for several years.
Unfortunately, the owner eventually cleared the shoreline of cattails
completely...so no nesting but a lesser sized flock, in the general area,
was often present...
Terry L. Miller
Plattsburg, MO
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 7:43 PM Dianne & Steve Kinder <
<0000041e4c13219a-dmarc-request...> wrote:
> This afternoon I observed a flock of at least 200 Great-tailed Grackles
> near the NE side of Fountain grove CA. When I went back through that
> location a few minutes later they had moved, and I did not relocate them.
> They appeared to be a flock of pure GTGR, as I did not detect any other
> species of Blackbirds with them.
>
> Steve Kinder
> Chillicothe
> <dmkinder...>
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