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Common Grackle
Quiscalus quiscula · Family Icteridae
Quiscalus quiscula
Family Icteridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Icteridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 12,364,779
- Countries and territories with records
- 13
About this species
This species has 12,364,779 occurrence records from 13 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (81.2%) and Canada (18.8%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.9% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Quiscalus quiscula combines the genus name Quiscalus with the species epithet quiscula. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Quiscalus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Quiscalus mexicanus, Quiscalus major and Quiscalus lugubris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 105 species of the family Icteridae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Agelaius phoeniceus. Its record count is 18.3 times the family average (677,230). The family Icteridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.