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Great-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus mexicanus · Family Icteridae
Quiscalus mexicanus
Family Icteridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Icteridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 3,799,667
- Countries and territories with records
- 35
About this species
This species has 3,799,667 occurrence records from 35 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (65.1%), Mexico (12.1%), Costa Rica (7.9%), Belize (3.2%) and Panama (3.1%); together they account for 91.3% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.22% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Quiscalus mexicanus combines the genus name Quiscalus with the species epithet mexicanus. 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 major and Quiscalus lugubris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 105 species of the family Icteridae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Agelaius phoeniceus. Its record count is 5.6 times the family average (677,230). The family Icteridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.