Icterids, Meadowlarks, Cowbirds, Grackles and Orioles
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 a predominant plumage colour, often enlivened by yellow, orange or red.
- Bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus LC
- Red-winged Blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus LC
- Tricolored Blackbird, Agelaius tricolor EN
- Tawny-shouldered Blackbird, Agelaius humeralis (A) LC
- Eastern Meadowlark, Sturnella magna LC
- Western Meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta LC
- Yellow-headed Blackbird, Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus LC
- Rusty Blackbird, Euphagus carolinus VU
- Brewer's Blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus LC
- Common Grackle, Quiscalus quiscula LC
- Boat-tailed Grackle, Quiscalus major LC
- Great-tailed Grackle, Quiscalus mexicanus LC
- Shiny Cowbird, Molothrus bonariensis LC
- Bronzed Cowbird, Molothrus aeneus LC
- Brown-headed Cowbird, Molothrus ater LC
- Black-vented Oriole, Icterus wagleri (A) LC
- Orchard Oriole, Icterus spurius LC
- Hooded Oriole, Icterus cucullatus LC
- Streak-backed Oriole, Icterus pustulatus (C) LC
- Bullock's Oriole, Icterus bullockii LC
- Spot-breasted Oriole, Icterus pectoralis (I) LC
- Altamira Oriole, Icterus gularis LC
- Audubon's Oriole, Icterus graduacauda LC
- Baltimore Oriole, Icterus galbula LC
- Scott's Oriole, Icterus parisorum LC
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