Grackle is the adaptable, ‘Mongol horde’ of avian world

Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 15:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Great-tailed grackles are one of the most successful invasive bird species in North America, having moved up from Central America to occupy a vast range of habitats and climates. They’ve done this, researchers say, with behavioral flexibility — the ill-defined ability to change behaviors as circumstances warrant. What researchers didn’t know was what went into […]

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