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Grackle (51135251724)🐦

Photo: Channel City Camera Club/Susan T. Cook · CC BY 2.0

SpeciesPasseriformesIcteridae
Birds

🐦Great-tailed Grackle

Quiscalus mexicanus (Gmelin, 1788)

A Maria-mulata ou Iraúna mexicana (Quiscalus mexicanus) é uma ave passeriforme de tamanho médio e altamente social, nativa da América do Norte e do Sul. No México é conhecido como chanate ou zanate. Membro da família Icteridae, é uma das dez espécies existentes de grackle (Iraúna). Às vezes é erroneamente referido como "melro" no sul dos Estados Unidos, embora os melros pertençam a outros gêneros, como Euphagus. Da mesma forma, é frequentemente chamado cuervo ("corvo") em áreas do México devido à sua plumagem preta brilhante, embora não seja um membro do gênero Corvus , nem mesmo da família Corvidae.

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≈ 1/390th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.16 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
13 years
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Everything we know about the Great-tailed Grackle

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.16 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female116 kgWikidataQ1234856
  • Male222 kgWikidataQ1234856

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  • 0.17 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: questionable
Tail length
0.17 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.17 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.04 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
13 years
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data quality: questionable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
13 days
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data quality: questionable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 3
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data quality: questionable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Human Modified
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.2 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Great-tailed Grackle yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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In other languages
merla mexicana (ca), vlhovec velkoocasý (cs), Kragegrackel (da), Dohlengrackel (de), zanate (es), pitkäpyrstöturpiaali (fi) … and 22 more languages
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