Location: St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological ParkI am a Common Grackle
I belong to the Icterid group of birds.
"Icterid" translates to "jaundiced ones"
Ornithologists have a strange way with words.
Actually, many black birds,
Have accents of orange or yellow,
Hence the jaundice in my name,
(But ornithologists are still odd fellows.)
Photo and text © 2018 Dee Fairbanks Simpson
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