Females are smaller and a duller brown color. They are mostly found in the eastern half of the state. The males are iridescent blue-black. Their eyes a usually yellow to brown. They are common mostly along the coast.
Females are tawny brown.
Males have iridescent black and purple on the head, back and underparts. They have golden yellow eyes. Females are brown with buff to grayish underparts. Most grackle calls are a mixed series of rattles, squeaks and whistles. The best way to tell grackles from crows is overall size, crows are larger bodied, and eye color, grackles have yellow eyes, crows have black eyes.