Carib Grackle

分类位置

同属物种

船尾拟八哥

Boat-tailed Grackle

普通擬八哥

Common Grackle

大尾鹩哥

Great-tailed Grackle

黑拟八哥

Greater Antillean Grackle

尼加拉瓜拟八哥

Nicaraguan Grackle

墨西哥擬八哥

Slender-billed Grackle

形态与习性

The Carib grackle (Quiscalus lugubris) is a New World tropical blackbird, a resident breeder in the Lesser Antilles and northern South America east of the Andes, from Colombia east to Venezuela and northeastern Brazil. There are eight subspecies, of which the most widespread is the nominate subspecies (Q. l. lugubris) of Trinidad and the South American mainland. This subspecies was introduced to Tobago in 1905 and is now common there.