Studies showed that bergamot lowered the total cholesterol levels in participants as well as the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels, which is a major factor for heart disease. It also raised the high-density lipoprotein (HDL) which is good and has protective benefits.
Grackle is the common name of any of eleven passerine birds native to North and South America. They belong to various genera in the icterid family.In all the species with this name, adult males have black or mostly black plumage. 1  Genus Quiscalus. 2  Boat-tailed grackle, Quiscalus major.ometimes members of the starling family have historically been called grackles. Tristram's starling is sometimes known as Tristram's grackle, and the hill mynas in the genus Gracula have also been called grackles.
Cool Facts. 1  Those raggedy figures out in cornfields may be called scare-crows, but grackles are the #1 threat to corn. 2  Common Grackles are resourceful foragers. 3  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.