Slender-billed Grackle
Quiscalus palustris(Swainson, WJ, 1827)
English (US) Slender-billed Grackle
The Slender-billed Grackle (Quiscalus palustris) 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: formerly Mexico; extinct, last reported 1910Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Quiscalus palustris
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Extinct
- English (US)
- Slender-billed Grackle
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1827)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Scaphidurus palustris
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1827)
- Type locality
- marshes and borders of lakes around [City of] Mexico; error, marshes at headwaters of Rio Lerma, Mexico, suggested by R. W. Dickerman, 1965, Auk, 82, p. 270.
- Original description
- The Philosophical Magazine, New Series n.s., 1 p.437
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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