Great-tailed Grackle

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Icteridae

Genus

Quiscalus

eBird Code

grtgra

Subspecies (8)

• Quiscalus mexicanus graysoni

  coastal northwestern Mexico (Sinaloa)

• Quiscalus mexicanus loweryi

  coastal Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, and adjacent offshore islands

• Quiscalus mexicanus mexicanus

  southern Mexico (eastern Jalisco and San Luis Potosí) to northern Nicaragua

• Quiscalus mexicanus monsoni

  southeastern Arizona to western Texas and Mexican Plateau to Jalisco and Guanajuato

• Quiscalus mexicanus nelsoni

  southeastern California to southern Arizona and western Mexico (northeastern Baja California and southern Sonora)

• Quiscalus mexicanus obscurus

  coastal southwestern Mexico (Nayarit to Guerrero)

• Quiscalus mexicanus peruvianus

  Pacific coast of Costa Rica to northwestern Peru and northwestern Venezuela

• Quiscalus mexicanus prosopidicola

  southeastern New Mexico to southern Texas (USA), and Coahuila, San Luis Potosí, and southern Tamaulipas (northern Mexico)