Carib Grackle (Quiscalus lugubris)
About the Carib Grackle
The Carib grackle (Quiscalus lugubris) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae, the oropendolas, New World orioles, and New World blackbirds. It is found throughout the Lesser Antilles, across northern South America from Colombia to extreme northeastern Brazil, and on several islands off South America's northern coast. The Carib grackle was formally described in 1838 with its current binomial Quiscalus lugubris. For a time the Carib grackle and the Greater Antillean grackle (Q. niger) were placed in the genus Holoquiscalus; they now are believed to form a superspecies. The Carib grackle has these eight subspecies:.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 92 recordings for this species: 30 CC BY-NC-SA · 15 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Colombia, Ecuador, France, Netherlands in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Common GrackleQuiscalus quiscularecording
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.