Bird Nest Puzzle
A nature-inspired jigsaw puzzle featuring a bird in flight
$35.00
Immerse yourself in nature with the Bird Nest Puzzle, featuring a striking, high-resolution image of a baby common gackle ambitions of getting back into the safety of his nest. Set against a rustic green and gray backdrop and designed for bird lovers and puzzle enthusiasts alike, this captivating puzzle offers hours of relaxing entertainment and a rewarding challenge. Each piece is crafted with precision for a perfect fit and lasting durability. Ideal as a gift with holidays around the cornor or for personal enjoyment, it's available in multiple sizes to suit every skill level. Bring a touch of the outdoors into your home and celebrate your love for wildlife with this beautifully detailed puzzle.
Comon Gackle fun facts from cornelllabs!
"Those raggedy figures out in cornfields may be called scare-crows, but grackles are the #1 threat to corn. They eat ripening corn as well as corn sprouts, and their habit of foraging in big flocks means they have a multimillion dollar impact. Some people have tried to reduce their effects by spraying a foul-tasting chemical on corn sprouts or by culling grackles at their roosts.
Common Grackles are resourceful foragers. They sometimes follow plows to catch invertebrates and mice, wade into water to catch small fish, pick leeches off the legs of turtles, steal worms from American Robins, raid nests, and kill and eat adult birds.
Grackles have a hard keel on the inside of the upper mandible that they use for sawing open acorns. Typically they score the outside of the narrow end, then bite the acorn open.
You might see a Common Grackle hunched over on the ground, wings spread, letting ants crawl over its body and feathers. This is called anting, and grackles are frequent practitioners among the many bird species that do it. The ants secrete formic acid, the chemical in their stings, and this may rid the bird of parasites. In addition to ants, grackles have been seen using walnut juice, lemons and limes, marigold blossoms, chokecherries, and mothballs in a similar fashion.
In winter, Common Grackles forage and roost in large communal flocks with several different species of blackbird. Sometimes these flocks can number in the millions of individuals.
Rarely, Common Grackles nest in places other than their usual treetops, including birdhouses, old woodpecker holes, barns, and in still-occupied nests of Osprey and Great Blue Heron.
The oldest recorded Common Grackle was a male, and at least 23 years old and 1 month when he was killed by a raptor in Minnesota in 1994."
Credits source: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Grackle/overview