Species

Quiscalus mexicanus (Great-tailed grackle)

Quiscalus mexicanus. Photo: (c) Francesco Veronesi, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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 ten extant species of grackle and is closely related to the boat-tailed grackle and the slender-billed grackle. It is sometimes erroneously referred to as a “blackbird” in the southern United States, although blackbirds belong to the genus Euphagus. Similarly, it is often called “cuervo” in…

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