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Red-winged Blackbird

Agelaius phoeniceus · Family Icteridae

Agelaius phoeniceus

Family Icteridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Icteridae
GBIF occurrence records
21,130,305
Countries and territories with records
26
Red-winged Blackbird
Walter Siegmund (talk) · Agelaius phoeniceus 0110 taxo.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Walter Siegmund (talk) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Agelaius_phoeniceus_-_Red-winged_Blackbird_XC128396.ogg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 21,130,305 occurrence records from 26 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (83.9%) and Canada (15.5%); together they account for 99.3% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 1.6% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Agelaius phoeniceus combines the genus name Agelaius with the species epithet phoeniceus. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Agelaius; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Agelaius tricolor, Agelaius humeralis and Agelaius xanthomus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 105 species of the family Icteridae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 31.2 times the family average (677,230). The family Icteridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Icteridae

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