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Agelaius Blackbirds
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Agelaius Blackbirds

Agelaius

Agelaius is a genus of blackbirds in the New World family Icteridae. Established by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816, it contains five species:

The name Agelaius comes from the Greek agelaios, meaning "gregarious".

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 5 known species

Red-winged Blackbird

speciesAgelaius phoeniceus

Tricolored Blackbird

speciesAgelaius tricolor

Tawny-shouldered Blackbird

speciesAgelaius humeralis

Yellow-shouldered Blackbird

speciesAgelaius xanthomus

Red-shouldered Blackbird

speciesAgelaius assimilis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 9740.