TriColoured Blackbird
Agelaius tricolor(Audubon, JJ, 1837)
English (US) Tricolored Blackbird
UK name: TriColoured Blackbird
The TriColoured Blackbird (Agelaius tricolor) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Icteridae (New World Blackbirds, Troupials, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: marshes and farmlands of southwestern Oregon to northwestern Baja CaliforniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Agelaius tricolor
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Tricolored Blackbird
- English (UK)
- TriColoured Blackbird
- Described by
- (Audubon, JJ, 1837)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Icterus tricolor
- Described by
- (Audubon, JJ, 1837)
- Type locality
- no locality specified ; Santa Barbara, California, designated by Audubon, 1839, Ornith. Biogr., 5, p. 3.
- Original description
- The Birds of America; from original drawings 4 pl.388 fig.1
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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