Family of birds, often black with yellow, orange, or red markings
Not to be confused with Icteriidae.
Icterids
Adult male Bullock's oriole
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Passeriformes
Superfamily:
Emberizoidea
Family:
Icteridae Vigors, 1825
Type genus
Icterus
Brisson, 1760
Genera
30, See text
Icterids (/ˈɪktərɪd/) or New World blackbirds make up a family, the Icteridae (/ɪkˈtɛrɪdi/), of small to medium-sized, often colorful, New World passerine birds. The family contains 108 species and is divided into 30 genera. Most species have black as a predominant plumage color, often enlivened by yellow, orange, or red. The species in the family vary widely in size, shape, behavior, and coloration. The name, meaning "jaundiced ones" (from the prominent yellow feathers of many species) comes from the Ancient Greek ikteros via the Latin ictericus. This group includes the New World blackbirds, New World orioles, the bobolink, meadowlarks, grackles, cowbirds, oropendolas, and caciques.
Despite the similar names, the first groups are only distantly related to the Old World common blackbird (a thrush) or the Old World orioles.
The Icteridae are not to be confused with the Icteriidae, a family created in 2017 and consisting of one species — the yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens).[1]
^Chesser, R. Terry; Burns, Kevin J.; Cicero, Carla; Dunn, Jon L.; Kratter, Andrew W.; Lovette, Irby J.; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Remsen, J. V.; Rising, James D. (2017). "Fifty-eighth supplement to the American Ornithological Society's Check-list of North American Birds". The Auk. 134 (3): 751–773. doi:10.1642/auk-17-72.1.
Icterids (/ˈɪktərɪd/) or New World blackbirds make up a family, the Icteridae (/ɪkˈtɛrɪdi/), of small to medium-sized, often colorful, New World passerine...
The avian family Icteridae is variously called icterids, troupials and allies, or oropendolas, orioles, blackbirds by taxonomic authorities. The family...
seven of the 11 species of grackles, gregarious passerine birds in the icterid family. They are native to North and South America. The genus was named...
native to North and South America. They belong to various genera in the icterid family. In all the species with this name, adult males have black or mostly...
The common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) is a species of large icterid bird found in large numbers through much of North America. First described in 1758...
The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its name...
The western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) is a medium-sized icterid bird, about 8.5 in (22 cm) in length. It nests on the ground in open grasslands...
raised their own young. One hundred bird species, including honeyguides, icterids, and ducks, are obligate parasites, though the most famous are the cuckoos...
extinction in 1907, but fossils are also known from Maui. The Maui Nui icterid-like gaper (Aidemedia lutetiae) was never documented historically, but...
The orchard oriole (Icterus spurius) is the smallest species of icterid. The subspecies of the Caribbean coast of Mexico, I. s. fuertesi, is sometimes...
blackbird, a North American species sometimes nicknamed "redwing", which is an icterid, not a thrush. The binomial name derives from the Latin words turdus, "thrush"...
The marshbirds, Pseudoleistes, are a small genus of icterid birds (family Icteridae). The genus contains the following species: "Icteridae". aviansystematics...
blackbirds: the icterids. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Jaramillo, A., & Burke, P. (1999). New world blackbirds: the icterids. Princeton, NJ:...
(olivaceus) ludoviciae) is alternatively known as the Somali blackbird. The icterid family of the New World is sometimes called the blackbird family because...
Oriolidae. They are not closely related to the New World orioles, which are icterids (family Icteridae) that belong to the superfamily Passeroidea. The genus...
their appearance, including the icterine warbler and icterine greenbul. Icterid List of colours Pavey, Don; Telesio, Antonio; Osborne, Roy. (2003). On...
of reptiles represented as lizard, skink, turtle and snake. Some of the icterid birds visit the mountains as well as the hermit thrush and wood thrush...
and the Blue and John Crow Mountains. The Jamaican blackbird is a small icterid with all black plumage. It has a short tail that is often flayed. It is...
Extinct in the wild (EW): 5 species Critically endangered (CR): 223 species Endangered (EN): 460 species Vulnerable (VU): 798 species Near threatened...
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