Icterid
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Icterids or New World blackbirds make up a family, the Icteridae, of small to medium-sized, often colorful, New World passerine birds. The family contains 108 species and is divided into 30 genera. Mo
Bullock's Oriole
Breeding male Brewer's blackbird apparently gaping (see text) in soil
Yellow Headed Blackbird "Posing" for the Camera
Bobolink at Lake Woodruff Flickr Andrea Westmoreland
Common blackbird
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The common blackbird is a species of true thrush. It is also known as the Eurasian blackbird, or simply the blackbird. It breeds in Europe, western Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to A
Icterid
…meadowlarks, grackles, cowbirds, oropendolas, and caciques. Despite the similar names, the first groups are only distantly related to the Old World common blackbird (a thrush) or to the Old World orioles. The Icteridae are not to be confused with the Icteriidae, a family created in 2017 and consisting of one species…
Common Blackbird
Common Blackbird female
First-summer male, probably subspecies aterrimus
Female of subspecies merula