Agelaius information

Agelaius
	A male red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) while flying
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Icteridae
Genus:	Agelaius; Vieillot, 1816
Type species
	Oriolus phoeniceus; Linnaeus, 1766
Species
	See text

Agelaius is a genus of blackbirds in the New World family Icteridae. Established by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816, it contains five species:^[2]

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Agelaius phoeniceus	Red-winged blackbird	North and much of Central America
Agelaius assimilis	Red-shouldered blackbird	Cuba
Agelaius tricolor	Tricolored blackbird	Pacific coast of North America, from Northern California in the U.S. (with occasional strays into Oregon), to upper Baja California in Mexico.
Agelaius humeralis	Tawny-shouldered blackbird	Cuba, Hispaniola, and the Cayman Islands
Agelaius xanthomus	Yellow-shouldered blackbird	Puerto Rico

The name Agelaius comes from the Greek agelaios, meaning "gregarious".^[3]

^ "Icteridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
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Agelaius

A male red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) while flying
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Icteridae
Genus:	Agelaius Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Oriolus phoeniceus^[1] Linnaeus, 1766
Species
See text