#1028 · 🐦 birds

Great-tailed Grackle

🇳🇱 Langstaarttroepiaal ·Quiscalus mexicanus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0
3. © Ricard Busquets Reverte · CC BY 4.0
4. © aguilargm · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © joushog · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Annika Lindqvist · CC BY 4.0
7. © Adrián Morales Hernández · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Liam Huber · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Adrián Morales Hernández · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The great-tailed grackle or Mexican grackle ( Quiscalus mexicanus ) is a medium-sized, highly social passerine bird native to North and South America. A member of the family Icteridae, it is one of 10 extant species of grackle and is closely related to the boat-tailed grackle and the extinct slender-billed grackle.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 171,069iNaturalist observations
weight 221.5 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
171,069 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 222 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788 (238 years ago).