{"id":25358,"date":"2012-11-05T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:13:55","slug":"greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Antillean Grackle Quiscalus niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) is a grackle found throughout the Greater Antilles and the Cayman Islands as well as smaller, nearby islands. Like all Quiscalus grackles, it is a rather large, gregarious bird. It lives largely in heavily settled areas.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Greater Antillean Grackle\u00a0<i>Quiscalus\u00a0niger<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-230-25358\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1660\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger\/greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger-3.jpg\" title=\"Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) at Luquillo, Puerto Rico\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) at Luquillo, Puerto Rico\" alt=\"Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger\/thumbs\/thumbs_greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger-3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1659\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger\/greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger-2.jpg\" title=\"Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) at Luquillo, Puerto Rico\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) at Luquillo, Puerto Rico\" alt=\"Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger\/thumbs\/thumbs_greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1658\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger\/greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger-1.jpg\" title=\"Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) at Luquillo, Puerto Rico\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) at Luquillo, Puerto Rico\" alt=\"Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger\/thumbs\/thumbs_greater-antillean-grackle-quiscalus-niger-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) is a grackle found throughout the Greater Antilles and the Cayman Islands as well as smaller, nearby islands. Like all Quiscalus grackles, it is a rather large, gregarious bird. It lives largely in heavily settled areas. Factsheet: Greater Antillean Grackle\u00a0Quiscalus\u00a0niger\u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":831365,"parent":17619,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[2165,2166],"class_list":["post-25358","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-greater-antillean-grackle","tag-quiscalus-niger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25358\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}