Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), Feeding station, Old Bisbee, Cochise County

This male Common Grackle was discovered and photographed by Michael Turisk on 27 November 2009 in his backyard in Old Bisbee. 

Common Grackle is a casual transient and winter visitant with about a dozen records.

Larger billed and longer tailed than Brewer's Blackbird.  Much smaller than Great-tailed Grackle with obvious contrast between the purple-glossed head and bronze-glossed back and wings (at least in the "Bronzed" form of Common Grackle which is the only one expected to stray to Arizona).  . 

27 November 2009, photo by Michael Turisk