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Melodious Blackbird

Dives dives · Family Icteridae

Dives dives

Family Icteridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Icteridae
GBIF occurrence records
613,042
Countries and territories with records
13
Melodious Blackbird
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About this species

This species has 613,042 occurrence records from 13 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (28.3%), Mexico (20.4%), Belize (19.4%), Guatemala (12.7%) and Honduras (10.6%); together they account for 91.4% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.66% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Dives dives combines the genus name Dives with the species epithet dives. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Dives: Dives warczewiczi.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 105 species of the family Icteridae. This species ranks 17th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Agelaius phoeniceus. Its record count is close to 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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