Red-winged Blackbird

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Icteridae

Genus

Agelaius

eBird Code

rewbla

Subspecies (22)

• Agelaius phoeniceus aciculatus

  mountains of south-central California (east-central Kern County)

• Agelaius phoeniceus arctolegus

  breeds southeastern Alaska and Yukon to north-central USA; winters to south-central USA

• Agelaius phoeniceus arthuralleni

  northern Guatemala

• Agelaius phoeniceus bryanti

  northwestern Bahamas

• Agelaius phoeniceus californicus

  Central Valley of California

• Agelaius phoeniceus caurinus

  breeds coastal southwestern British Columbia to northwestern California; winters to central California

• Agelaius phoeniceus floridanus

  southern Florida (Everglades to Key West)

• Agelaius phoeniceus fortis

  breeds Montana to southeastern New Mexico (east of Rocky Mountains); winters to Texas

• Agelaius phoeniceus grinnelli

  Pacific slope of western Guatemala to northwestern Costa Rica (Guanacaste)

• Agelaius phoeniceus gubernator

  Mexican Plateau (Durango to Zacatecas, México, and Tlaxcala)

• Agelaius phoeniceus littoralis

  Gulf Coast of southeastern Texas to northwestern Florida

• Agelaius phoeniceus mailliardorum

  coastal central California

• Agelaius phoeniceus mearnsi

  far southeastern Georgia and northern Florida

• Agelaius phoeniceus megapotamus

  central Texas and lower Río Grande Valley to eastern Mexico (northern Veracruz)

• Agelaius phoeniceus nelsoni

  south-central Mexico (Morelos and adjacent Guerrero to western Puebla and Chiapas)

• Agelaius phoeniceus neutralis

  coastal southern California (San Luis Obispo County) to northwestern Baja

• Agelaius phoeniceus nevadensis

  breeds southeastern British Columbia to Idaho, southeastern California, and southern Nevada; winters to southern Arizona

• Agelaius phoeniceus nyaritensis

  coastal plains of southwestern Mexico (Nayarit)

• Agelaius phoeniceus pallidulus

  southeastern Mexico (northern Yucatan Peninsula)

• Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus

  breeds southeastern Canada to Texas and southeastern USA; winters southward to Gulf coast

• Agelaius phoeniceus richmondi

  southeastern and southern Mexico to northern Costa Rica

• Agelaius phoeniceus sonoriensis

  southeastern California to northeastern Baja California, southern Nevada, central Arizona, and northwestern Mexico