Grackle Mayhem: Birding Safari in a Target Parking Lot
Birding can sometimes take you to quirky places such as dumps, sewage ponds, and sometimes parking lots. In Louisiana, I went to a local Target to see if I could find a particular species of bird called a Boat-tailed Grackle.
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Boat-tailed Grackle in cover image by Susan Young (Public Domain, edited)
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