The common grackle is a species of robin-sized blackbirds that are common (hence the name) over most of the United States. Long tails are dominant to short tails. A female short-tailed grackle mates with a male long-tailed grackle that had one parent with a long tail and one parent with a short tail. Use the genetics vocabulary we went over this school year to complete the following statements. (answer1] percent of the genotype would have the same genotype as the male/father.