Starlings have a short tail, straight, yellow bill, pink legs, lanceolate contour feathers, incorporate mimicry in their songs, nest in cavities (including buildings), the sexes are very similar in size, and are in the family Sturnidae.
New World grackles have a long, plicate tail, a longer, black, decurved bill, black legs, rounded tips to their contour feathers, have a tuneless song that sounds like a rusty hinge, nest in marshes, have marked sexual size dimorphism, and are in the Icteridae, the members of which are restricted to the New World. New World grackles are misnamed after the Old World grackles of Africa, which are in the starling family (Sturnidae).
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Originally posted by WPRESTO Short billed dowitcher (?someone correct me if I've misidentified this bird - I'm not good with the shorebirds). It had better wipe its feet before coming home.
Willet.