Xango - Adult male
Leg bands: Light blue (left leg) / Yellow (right leg) - Banded in Jan 2021
He wins the prize for solving the fewest options on the log puzzlebox - he didn't solve any of the 4 options. He is one the top 2 grackles with the largest body size with a leg length of 52.6 mm
Flan - Adult female
Leg bands: Orange / Orange - Jan 2021
She was in the top 2 fastest grackles to get through all of the aviary tests - taking less than 4 weeks! She is the lightest grackle, weighing in at 96 grams
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Churro - Adult male
Leg bands: Silver / Green - Jan 2021
Tembleque - Adult male
Leg bands: Yellow / Silver - Jan 2021
When he was temporarily in the aviaries, he was the fastest grackle to reverse a color preference - in 39 trials. In the wild, he liked to go toe to toe with the snakes in his territory!
Polvorones - Adult male
Leg bands: Light blue / Red - Jan 2021
He was the fastest grackle to learn a color preference - in 23 trials
Chocolate - Adult female
Leg bands: Silver / Silver - Jan 2021
Alegria - Adult female
Leg bands: Green / Yellow - Jan 2021
Her motto is "slow and steady". She would often participate in only one trial per day. In her fastest test, she took 6 days to complete the log puzzlebox
Sopapilla - Adult female
Leg bands: Silver / Red - Jan 2021
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Piña - Adult female
Leg bands: Yellow / nothing - Feb 2021
She was an eager participator in behavioral choice tests when she was temporarily in the aviaries and quickly completed everything
Kau - Adult male
Leg bands: Aqua / Red - Sep 2021
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Wachil - Adult female
Leg bands: Silver / Silver - Sep 2021
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Cuervo - Juvenile male
Leg bands: Yellow / Orange - Oct 2021
He liked to sit close to the aisle to watch the experimenters and after he was released back to the wild, he regularly visited the trap. Was he trying to get back to the aviaries?
Talingo - Adult male
Leg bands: Orange / Silver - Oct 2021
Bacmut bacni - Adult male
Leg bands: Silver / Silver - Nov 2021
Xunub - Adult male
Leg bands: Green / Yellow - Nov 2021
He was the slowest grackle to learn (76 trials) a color preference, but a very good sport and always eager to participate. His strategy for learning to reverse a preference was to choose the previously rewarded color (the one that now doesn't have any food in it) for 63 trials in a row!
Changa - Adult female
Leg bands: Red / Red - Nov 2021
Urraca - Adult male
Leg bands: Yellow / Yellow - Nov 2021
His iridescence is really bright!
Cocinera - Adult female
Leg bands: Red / Orange - Nov 2021
Tzanatl preciosa - Adult female
Leg bands: Orange / Green - Nov 2021
The smartest grackle ever tested! Learned a color preference in 21 trials, reversed a color preference in 26 trials, and solved all 4 doors on the puzzlebox
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Camote - Adult male
Leg bands: Green / Orange - Feb 2021
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Tres Leches - Adult female
Leg bands: Orange / Light blue - Mar 2021
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Helado - Adult male
Leg bands: Orange / Red - Mar 2021
He was pretty exploratory and kept trying to solve options on the social learning apparatus that he was not trained to demonstrate. He is the grackle with the longest wing length - 190 mm
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Zapote Negro - Adult male
Leg bands: Silver / Light blue - Mar 2021
He has some interesting ideas about how the world works. When habituating to the log puzzlebox, he seemed to think that he had to tip the log over to open one of the doors even though no touching of the log was required. He is the heaviest grackle, weighing in at 209 grams
Merengue - Adult male
Leg bands: Red / Green - Mar 2021
Carlota - Adult female
Leg bands: Red / Silver - Apr 2021
Buñuelo - Adult male
Leg bands: Red / Yellow - Apr 2021
He did a great job on the log puzzlebox and solved all 4 options. He is one the top 2 grackles with the largest body size with a leg length of 52.6 mm
Dulce de Leche - Adult male
Leg bands: Green / Light blue - Apr 2021
He was in the top 2 fastest grackles to get through all of the aviary tests - taking less than 4 weeks!
© Corina Logan
Cutuy - Adult female
Leg bands: Green / Red - Dec 2021
She was the slowest grackle to reverse (150 trials) a color preference at this site. Her strategy was to choose only the left side for 63 trials in a row! But she is a great participator - she could do 10 trials in 5 min (the experimenter is what slowed her down)!
Quiscalus - Adult female
Leg bands: Yellow / Silver - Dec 2021
And a few grackles from Woodland...
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Galandra - Juvenile female
Leg bands: Aqua / Red - Sep 2021
We caught her in Woodland, and in January 2022 she was living in Sacramento, 31 km away - quite the traveler!
© Corina Logan
Kel - Adult female
Leg bands: Orange / Silver - Sep 2021
We caught her in Woodland in September 2021, and in January 2022 she was living in Sacramento (31 km away). We found her back in Woodland in June 2022 with a fledgling! She is quite the traveler!
Ak'xi' - Adult male
Leg bands: Yellow / Aqua - Sep 2021
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