This is bird note.

Greckles are notoriously loud and brazen birds.

For all six species native to the Americas, males are iridescent black and females are sumptuous brown.

You can hear the roaring calls of common grackles in the eastern U.S. in Canada.

Great grackles in the eastern U.S. and Canada. Great-tailed grackles make their own distinctive ruckus, gathering in the tens of thousands,

from parking lots in California to coastal Ecuador.

But other grackles are pickier about their habitat,

like the boat-tailed grackle, found in tidal zones along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the U.S.

Or the Nicaraguan grackle that sticks close to the shores of Lake Nicaragua and Lake Manawa in Central America.

In the Caribbean, the greater Antalian grackle and carib grackle abound.

Sadly, there used to be a seventh.

Before its extinction in the mid-1900s, the slender-built grackle once thrived in marshes surrounding Mexico City.

The last birder to hear one in the wild said their call was like that of a common grackle,

a bird in steep decline today.

Though some deem them pests,

grackles can call us to celebrate the delightful diversity of common birds.

For bird note, I'm Ariana Rimmel.