Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds
Great-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus mexicanus
The great-tailed grackle or Mexican grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is a medium-sized, highly social passerine bird native to North and South America. A member of the family Icteridae, it is one of 10 extant species of grackle and is closely related to the boat-tailed grackle and the extinct slender-billed grackle. In the southern and southwestern United States, the grackle is sometimes referred to simply as a "blackbird" or (erroneously) a "crow" due to its glossy black plumage;
- Family
- Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Weight
- 160 g
- Habitat
- Human Modified
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 18
Recorded in United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Peru, Venezuela, Canada, AW, Puerto Rico, Chile.
Where to see it: 2a calle, Lotificación Minerva. (El Salvador); Barrio La Leona (FW) (Honduras); Finca Rubel Chaim (acceso restringido) (Guatemala); Chaa Creek (Belize); Parque Ecológico de Xochimilco (Mexico).
Photo: Melissa McMasters from Memphis, TN, United States, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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