Boat-tailed Grackle

Quiscalus major - Quiscale des marais

Systematics

Order
:
Passeriformes
Family
:
Ictéridés
Genus
:
Quiscalus
Species
:
major

Descriptor

Vieillot, 1819

Biometrics

Size
: 39 cm
Wingspan
: 39 à 50 cm.
Weight
: 93 à 239 g

Longevity

11 years

Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Boat-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus major) is a species of bird in the Icteridae family.

Subspecific information 4 subspecies

Quiscalus major major (coastal se USA from Texas to Mississippi)
Quiscalus major torreyi (ec USA)
Quiscalus major westoni (Florida. se USA.)
Quiscalus major alabamensis (coastal se USA from Mississippi to Florida)

Foreign names

Quiscale des marais,
Zanate marismeño,
iraúna-dos-pauis,
Bootschwanzgrackel,
nagy csónakfarkú,
Bootstaarttroepiaal,
Gracula codalarga,
större båtstjärt,
Båthaletrupial,
vlhovec pobrežný,
vlhovec člunoocasý,
Bådhalet Grackel,
mölyturpiaali,
quíscal d'aiguamoll,
wilgowron żaglosterny,
ķīļastes pusvārnis,
Лодкохвостый гракл,
キタオナガクロムクドリモドキ,
宽尾拟八哥,
större båtstjärt,
寬尾擬八哥,

Voice song and cries

play
pause

Habitat

Wetlands (inland) : Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands, Permanent Saline, Brackish or alkaline Marshes/Pools ; Marine Coastal/Supratidal : Coastal Brackish/Saline Lagoons/Marine Lakes

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status

Extinct

Threatened

Least
concern

Extinc
in the Wild

Near
threatened

Not
evaluated

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Illustration

Access to all images

Sources of information

All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
Avibase, Lepage Denis
New World Blackbirds - The Icterids, Alvaro Jaramillo and Peter Burke
IOC World Bird List (v14.2), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2024-04-18.

Other sources of interest