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Boat-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus major · Family Icteridae
Quiscalus major
Family Icteridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Icteridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,552,986
- Countries and territories with records
- 16
About this species
This species has 1,552,986 occurrence records from 16 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). The United States accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.14% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Quiscalus major combines the genus name Quiscalus with the species epithet major. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Quiscalus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Quiscalus quiscula, Quiscalus mexicanus and Quiscalus lugubris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 105 species of the family Icteridae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Agelaius phoeniceus. Its record count is 2.3 times the family average (677,230). The family Icteridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.