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]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at > www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]