Quiscalus
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The avian genus Quiscalus contains seven of the 11 species of grackles, gregarious passerine birds in the icterid family. They are native to North and South America.
The genus was named and described by French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) by English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840.[3][4] The genus name comes from the specific name Gracula quiscula coined by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus for the common grackle.[5] From where Linnaeus obtained the word is uncertain, but it may come from the Taíno word quisqueya, meaning "mother of all lands", for the island of Hispaniola.[6]
The genus contains six extant species and one extinct species:[7]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| File:Quiscalus major -Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area, Florida, USA -male-8.jpg | Quiscalus major | Boat-tailed grackle | Florida and the coastal Southeastern United States |
| File:Quiscalus-quiscula-001.jpg | Quiscalus quiscula | Common grackle | North America |
| File:Quiscalus mexicanusMPCCA20061226-0567B.jpg | Quiscalus mexicanus | Great-tailed grackle | northern regions of South America, through the western and central United states with vagrants occasionally into Canada |
| File:QuiscalusTenuirostris.jpg | †Quiscalus palustris | Slender-billed grackle | endemic of central Mexico, namely Valley of Mexico and Toluca Valley (extinct around 1910) |
| File:Thirsty (8387794451).jpg | Quiscalus nicaraguensis | Nicaraguan grackle | Nicaragua and northernmost Costa Rica |
| File:Quiscalus niger -Ciego de Avila Province, Cuba-8 (3).jpg | Quiscalus niger | Greater Antillean grackle | the Greater Antilles |
| File:Quiscalus lugubris.jpg | Quiscalus lugubris | Carib grackle | Colombia east to Venezuela and northeastern Brazil |
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Icteridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in français). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 36.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 41.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1968). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 14. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 187.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latina). Vol. 1 (10th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 109.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 328–329. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Oropendolas, orioles, blackbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
External links
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- Quiscalus videos, photos and sounds on the Internet Bird Collection
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