#icterid

[crypitd]

Scarlet-Headed Blackbird chillin' on Fat Bird Friday

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© Harlen Chen

#Scarlet-Headed Blackbird #blackbird #icterid #bird #fat bird #fbf #fat bird friday #fluffy #round #borb #chonk #chunk #art #illustration #🐦 #burb #birb #digital art #HC #regular content #2022 #animal #animals #rotund

[ravensvalley]

#CommonGrackel

…with all these temperature variations around here, no one can really be sure if it's Spring Season.

But today a small flock of these magnificent Common Grackels has arrived to enjoy the sun with us so, it's official now. We're in!

#Common Grackel #Grackel #FeederWatch #Passerine Bird #Birds #Icterid Family #Photography #IUCN #Spring #Mountainous Parts of the Northern Hemisphere #Canada #The RavenKeeper

[geopsych]

Flock of grackles and maybe some red-winged blackbirds. I love how I could hear their wings at the beginning.

#pennsylvania #landscape #fog #flock of birds #Icterids #birds #july #geopsych video

[dougdimmadodo]

Boat-Tailed Grackle (Quiscalus major)

Family: American Blackbird Family (Icteridae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Native to the southeastern USA, the Boat-Tailed Grackle shares much of its range with the closely related Common Grackle, but can be distinguished from its relative thanks to its larger size (Growing to be around 40cm/15.7 inches long compared to the around 32cm/12.6 inch long Common Grackle) and its considerably longer, broader tail, which is present in both sexes but more prominent in males. Found largely in coastal habitats (although they may also be found near large inland bodies of water or in human settlements where they feed on abandoned food scraps), members of this species roost in large, loosely organised flocks that may contain hundreds of individuals, and which scatter during the day to feed on seeds, fruits, insects, eggs and small vertebrates such as frogs, fishes and occasionally smaller birds before gathering back together at dusk. Boat-Tailed Grackles mate in the early spring (with a male establishing a strictly-guarded territory and producing a high-pitched mating call to invite a large number of females into it) and nest during the late spring and early summer (with several females constructing small, cup-shaped nests among dense elevated vegetation within close proximity to one another to increase the likelihood of potential predators and egg thieves being spotted, and 3-5 pale, speckled and striped eggs being laid in each nest.) Females of this species have pale brown bodies and dark brown wings, while males (such as the individual pictured above) are nearly twice the size of females and possess iridescent black feathers that reflect light in such a way that they may appear purple, blue or green if seen under bright sunlight. As is true of many grackles the males of this species are frequently mistaken for crows (with the word grackle being derived from the Latin graculus, meaning “jackdaw”, in reference to the two small species of Eurasian crows known collectively as jackdaws), but despite their superficial similarities grackles and crows are not closely related (with grackles and their fellow American Blackbirds being more closely related to the American Sparrows of the family Passerellidae.)

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9601-Quiscalus-major

(Side note: Some of the sources I’ve read about grackles seem to suggest that they’re among the most common passerine birds in North America, but I’m curios as to how true that is. I don’t suppose anyone who sees this post and lives in/has been to America can confirm or deny this?)

#Boat-Tailed Grackle #grackle #grackles #blackbird #blackbirds #icterids #icteridae #bird #birds #zoology #biology #ornithology #animal #animals #wildlife #north american wildlife

[unagidevi]

Had this sitting waiting to be finished for two months.

#dreamswap #undertale au #dreamtale au #art #artwork #undertale #digital art #icterid 'starling' fink #ds ink #ds finch #paintedwings

[soliusss]

silly bird au that was contrived from boredom at work

#Arthur was originally an icterid but I decided pigeon was funnier so I went with that #all the gods are corvids #malevolent podcast #solius art

[oberon-king-of-the-cherries]

I went on my first date a few weeks ago and while I did not have any strong or sudden feelings about him, I may have to reevaluate that, as he has just sent me—without prompting—fish content. When I texted him back pictures of my shrimp, he very appropriately responded “Shrimps?!”

#if you follow icterid-rubus then you may be aware of my dating saga #yes at the ripe old age of 27 I have finally gone out on my first date. i have also for the first time ever held hands with someone.

[neofelis----nebulosa]

one of the best examples of convergent evolution that we as a society need to talk about more is between the grackles and the glossy starlings

Like what you mean they aren't closely related???

#ngl when i was first getting into birds i figured the Icterid blackbirds were a group within the starling family #imagine my shock when they werent even directly related #i mean yeah theyre both in Parvorder Passerida #so not closely related is admittedly somewhat of a stretch #but theyre are so many things that are more closely related to the respective groups individually than they are to each other #like how are grackles going to be more closely related to things like the cerulean warbler than the glossy starlings

[alonglistofbirds]

[2599/11080] Common grackle - Quiscalus quiscula

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Emberizoidea Family: Icteridae (icterids)

Photo credit: Henry Trombley via Macaulay Library

#birds #Common grackle #Passeriformes #Passeri #Emberizoidea #Icteridae #Quiscalus #birds a to z #described

[mutant-distraction]

The scarlet-headed blackbird

(Amblyramphus holosericeus) is an icterid found in the South American wetlands.

⁃ Photo courtesy of Ester Ramirez

Pantanal, Brazil.

[thegurlwhoisntthere]

Because I’m feeling passive aggressive today, here’s a list of birds by colors they showed up for by google search for the batfam fandom when they try to come up with alternate names for Gotham’s Vigilantes:

Green:

HoneyCreeper

Macaw

Sparrow

Tanager

Vireo

Kingfisher

Kinglet

Greenfinch

Warbler

Siskin

Turaco

Eurylaimidae

Hummingbird

Yellow:

Goldfinch

Meadowlark

Warbler

Tanager

Verdin

Sicalis

Oriole

Cape Weaver

Icterid

Red:

Cardinal

Tanager

Finch

Flycatcher

Redpoll

Chaffinch

Rosefinch

Trogon

Ibis

Firefinch

Sunbird

Woodpecker

HoneyCreeper

‘Apapane

Blue:

Bluebird

Songbird

Thrush

Cyanocitta

Parula

Gnatcatcher

HoneyCreeper

Mockingbird

Warbler

Niltava

Tanager

Flycatcher

Dacnis

Magpie

Purple:

Starling

HoneyCreeper

Hummingbird

Gallinule

Sabrewing

Cotinga

Woodnymph

Swamphen

Thornbill

Sunbird

Finch

Flycatcher

Fairywren

Scimitarbill

Turaco

Dove

Woodstar

Tanager

Sheartail

Mountaingem

Carib

Violetear

Plovercrest

Cochoa

Grackle

Kingfisher

Black:

Blackbird

Raven

Icterid

Grackle

Songbird

Crow

Starling

Cowbird

Magpie

Phoebe

Phainopepla

Ani

Passerine

Oystercatcher

Vulture

Cormorant

Rook

Warbler

Turnstone

Jackdaw

I’m sure there’s more, but I’ve seen too many fics where they try to rename them and it’s all the same 4 birds with different colors slapped in front! There are so many birds and a lot of them have color overlap for costume accents!!!

#this is also towards DC writers #literally one google search and there are so many names #red robin #black canary #white canary #Robin #JUST USE DIFFERENT NAMES #there are not enough bird themed heroes to justify this much overlap #batfam #batman #dc #dc comic #dc characters #dc batman #dc robin #redbird #to be clear I am aware that some of these are already in use but I added them anyway because I can

[crypitd]

🎃 Baltimore Oriole Pumpkin Bird for Spooky Bird Sunday 🎃

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© Harlen Chen

#Baltimore Oriole #icterid blackbird #oriole #🎃 #spooky bird sunday #spooky #pumpkin #jack o lantern #bird #fat bird #fluffy #round #borb #chonk #chunk #art #illustration #🐦 #burb #birb #digital art #HC #regular content #2022 #animal #animals #october #rotund #nature

[empidonax]

Disclaimer: there are many bird families out there and only 10 poll options! These are lumped together either taxonomically or in ways that make sense. The families selected are based on North American native birds.

Please reblog if you're interested in seeing what birds people like! :)

#polls #tumblr polls #poll #bird #birds #ornithology #kes talks

[unagidevi]

ok I have genuine question. Don’t wanna be rude but sorry if it sounds. I’m just curious as to why you put icterids last name as fink when finch has a last name? (It’s Hendrickson btw) typically children take their parents last name so was that intentional or just because? (/gen)

It's just easier to remember the shipname- the last name isn't exactly Canon, it's actually Hendrickson it's just so I remember the ship he belongs to. Apologies for the confusion! And don't worry, this isn't rude. I just have horrible memory and used to change shipnames multiple times instead of keeping just one so it's a reminder

#dev anon asks #icterid 'starling' fink #but yeah #its a memory problem thing #sorry about that #tatteredwings xhanged like 3 times #and fink has gone from aomething to paintedwings AND fink

[tropic-havens]

Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma) at Pital, Alajuela, Costa Rica

Found this guy at Laguna Del Lagarto Lodge, Boca Tapada, Costa Rica.

The Montezuma oropendola is a New World tropical icterid bird. It is a resident breeder in the Caribbean coastal lowlands from southeastern Mexico to central Panama, but is absent from El Salvador and southern Guatemala. It also occurs on the Pacific slope of Nicaragua and Honduras and northwestern Costa Rica. It is among the oropendola species sometimes separated in the genus Gymnostinops. The English and scientific names of this species commemorate the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II.

The "unforgettable" song of the male Montezuma oropendola is given during the bowing display, and consists of a conversational bubbling followed by loud gurgles, tic-tic-glik-glak-GLUUuuuuu. Both sexes have loud cack and crrrk calls.

[soundcloud.com/martynstewart/montezuma-oropendola]

Psarocolius is a genus of nine species of oropendola.

#costa rica #tropical #animals #birds

[queenlua]

tried to google "ichtyids" to get their stats for this Dominions 5 game i'm playing

and my brain autocorrected it into "icterids", which like, fair

i wish i were dealing with a legion of these guys instead...

#birding #gamer nonsense