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Brewer's Blackbird

Euphagus cyanocephalus · Family Icteridae

Euphagus cyanocephalus

Family Icteridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Icteridae
GBIF occurrence records
2,107,293
Countries and territories with records
4
Brewer's Blackbird
Alan D. Wilson · Brewers Blackbird Esquimalt Lagoon.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Alan D. Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Euphagus_cyanocephalus_-_Brewer's_Blackbird_XC104521.mp3 · 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 2,107,293 occurrence records from 4 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (89.2%) and Canada (10.1%); together they account for 99.3% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.17% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Euphagus cyanocephalus combines the genus name Euphagus with the species epithet cyanocephalus. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Euphagus: Euphagus carolinus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 105 species of the family Icteridae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Agelaius phoeniceus. Its record count is 3.1 times the family average (677,230). The family Icteridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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