While I am not shocked to learn of this behavior several others species
would have come to mind such as Blue jays & Crows. Also, I have experienced
Great horned owls eating the heads off of songbirds. They must be into
"brain" food. ;-)

                                                Manon VanSchoyck
                                                Ohio Nature Education
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Beal" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 2:43 PM
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Common Grackle as predator


>I am fascinated about these observations that Common Grackles kill small
> song birds.  I'll look into that.  I have many Common Grackles at my
> bird feeder and have not seen any predation but will watch for it.  I'll
> check the ornithological journals for this.  Wow.
>
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