Species group · Birds
WAnimals has 2 species of new world blackbird, in the family Icteridae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 11 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Like the European cuckoo, it lays its eggs in other birds' nests to be incubated and reared by foster parents, and builds no nest of its own.
From Brown-headed Cowbird
It is a brood parasite of more than 220 different species, the widest repertoire known in any bird: a single female can lay more than thirty eggs in a season, spread among other birds' nests.
From Brown-headed Cowbird
It used to follow the bison herds across the prairies, eating the insects they flushed: that wandering life made tending a nest impossible, and brood parasitism was the answer.
From Brown-headed Cowbird
The males defend their patch of wetland fiercely, flashing their red-and-yellow epaulettes as a warning to rival males.
From Red-winged Blackbird