🐾 Great-tailed Grackle

Quiscalus mexicanus · wildlife atlas entry

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The great-tailed grackle or Mexican grackle ( Quiscalus mexicanus ) is a medium-sized, highly social passerine bird native to North and South America. A member of the family Icteridae, it is one of 10 extant species of grackle and is closely related to the boat-tailed grackle and the extinct slender-billed grackle. In the southern and southwestern United States, the grackle is sometimes referred to simply as a "blackbird" or (erroneously) a "crow" due to its glossy black plumage; Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Great-tailed Grackle — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Ad Konings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ad Konings · cc-by-nc

Record card

Scientific name	Quiscalus mexicanus
Rank	species
Community observations	171,065 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Chordata › class Aves › order Passeriformes › family Icteridae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Great-tailed Grackle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · W Gray St, Houston, TX, US
(c) haileyro, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Great-tailed Grackle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-09 · Av. 613, Zoológico de San Juan de Aragón, 07920 Ciudad de México, CDMX, México
(c) Nao, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Great-tailed Grackle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-19 · SR-315, Willard, UT, US
(c) Ellen Eiriksson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

Great-tailed Grackle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-09 · San Cristóbal de las Casas, MX-CH, MX
(c) Diego Manzano Méndez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Great-tailed Grackle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-09 · María Auxiliadora, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chis., México
(c) Diego Manzano Méndez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Great-tailed Grackle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-11 · Xaltocan, Ciudad de México, CDMX, México
(c) Erick Jesús Anaya-Gutiérrez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Great-tailed Grackle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Bolivar Peninsula, TX, USA
(c) Brooks Oakley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Great-tailed Grackle photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Brook Oaks, Waco, TX, USA
(c) Nathan Wahler, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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