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Blackbirds — red-winged and the common grackle — are showing up.

Some 90% of the total loss came from just 12 bird families and 19 widespread bird species such as the dark-eyed junco, common grackle and house sparrows.

On my last day in Austin, while walking through a park, I encountered a common grackle hunting for insects in the grass.

Walking through the Locust Grove, he spied a tufted titmouse, and from the ramparts of Belvedere Castle he spotted through his binoculars a common grackle and a palm warbler.

“We used to never get an emergence of the common grackle in the winter,” Mr. DiCostanzo said.