Troupials and Allies
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Icteridae
The icterids are a group of small to medium, often colourful, passerine birds restricted to the New World and include the grackles, New World blackbirds, and New World orioles. Most species have black as the predominant plumage colour, often enlivened by yellow, orange or red. There are 30 species which have been recorded in Venezuela.
- Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
- Yellow-hooded Blackbird Chrysomus icterocephalus
- Red-breasted Blackbird Sturnella militaris
- Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
- Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
- Carib Grackle Quiscalus lugubris
- Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis
- Giant Cowbird Molothrus oryzivorus
- Moriche Oriole Icterus chrysocephalus
- Yellow-backed Oriole Icterus chrysater
- South American Yellow Oriole Icterus nigrogularis
- Yellow-tailed Oriole Icterus mesomelas
- Orange-crowned Oriole Icterus auricapillus
- Venezuelan Troupial Icterus icterus
- Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
- Bullock's Oriole Icterus bullockii
- Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
- Yellow-billed Cacique Amblycercus holosericeus
- Yellow-rumped Cacique Cacicus cela
- Red-rumped Cacique Cacicus haemorrhous
- Scarlet-rumped Cacique Cacicus uropygialis
- Mountain Cacique Cacicus chrysonotus
- Solitary Cacique Cacicus solitarius
- Crested Oropendola Psarocolius decumanus
- Green Oropendola Psarocolius viridis
- Russet-backed Oropendola Psarocolius angustifrons
- Amazonian Oropendola Gymnostinops bifasciatus
- Oriole Blackbird Gymnomystax mexicanus
- Velvet-fronted Grackle Lampropsar tanagrinus
- Golden-tufted Grackle Macroagelaius imthurni
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