Yellow-headed Blackbird
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus(Bonaparte, CLJL, 1826)
English (US) Yellow-headed Blackbird
The Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) 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: breeds southern Canada to northern Baja California and southern USA; winters to central MexicoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Described by
- (Bonaparte, CLJL, 1826)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Icterus xanthocephalus
- Described by
- (Bonaparte, CLJL, 1826)
- Type locality
- Pawnee villages on the river Platte ; - along the Loup River, just west of Fullerton, Nance County, Nebraska, fide Swenk, 1933, Nebraska Bird Rev., 1, p. 34.
- Original description
- Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5, pt.2, no.5 p.223
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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