#0883 · 🐦 birds
Carib Grackle
🇳🇱 Caribische Troepiaal ·Quiscalus lugubris
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Oswaldo Hernández · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Eamon Corbett · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Luxo B. · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © David Monroy R · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Mark Yokoyama · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. © Mark Stevens · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. © Annika Lindqvist · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Mark Yokoyama · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. © Mark Yokoyama · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
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 north-eastern Brazil.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 7,625 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by William Swainson in 1838 (188 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Carib Grackle
- Nederlands
- Caribische Troepiaal
- scientific name
- Quiscalus lugubris
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Icteridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 7
- sightings in Europe
- 7
- sightings worldwide
- 7,625
- GBIF records in NL
- 245
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1838 by William Swainson
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Icteridae
#0980 📷 10Baltimore Oriole
🇳🇱 Baltimoretroepiaal
Icterus galbula
LC 👀 1 in NL
#1255 📷 9Red-winged Blackbird
🇳🇱 Epauletspreeuw
Agelaius phoeniceus
LC 🌍 317.5k seen
#1028 📷 9Great-tailed Grackle
🇳🇱 Langstaarttroepiaal
Quiscalus mexicanus
LC 🌍 171.1k seen
#1271 📷 10Common Grackle
🇳🇱 Glanstroepiaal
Quiscalus quiscula
NT 🌍 121k seen
#1035 📷 9Brown-headed Cowbird
🇳🇱 Bruinkopkoevogel
Molothrus ater
LC 🌍 109.5k seen
#1306 📷 7Brewer's Blackbird
🇳🇱 Brewers Troepiaal
Euphagus cyanocephalus
NT 🌍 53.5k seen
#1329 📷 10Boat-tailed Grackle
🇳🇱 Bootstaarttroepiaal
Quiscalus major
LC 🌍 41.2k seen
#1336 📷 10Hooded Oriole
🇳🇱 Maskertroepiaal
Icterus cucullatus
LC 🌍 38.5k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 9600, Wikidata Q1588623, GBIF 2484159, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.