Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Icteridae > Quiscalus > Quiscalus nigerQuiscalus niger (Greater Antillean Grackle)The Greater Antillean grackle (Quiscalus niger) is a grackle found throughout the Greater Antilles as well as smaller, nearby islands. Like all Quiscalus grackles, it is a rather large, gregarious bird. It lives largely in heavily settled areas. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 2.29996 EDGE Score: 1.19391 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 73 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 62 grams | | Male Weight [1] | 85 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 37.1 % |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 50 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 80 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 4 |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Alejandro de Humboldt |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Alturas de Banao |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Cayo Sabinal, Ballenatos y Manglares de la Bahía de Nuevitas |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, B4i |
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Cayos Romano-Cruz-Megano Grande |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Cienaga de Lanier y Sur de la Isla de la Juventud |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Ciénaga de Zapata |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Delta del Cauto |
Cuba |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii, B4i |
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Delta del Mayarí |
Cuba |
A1, A3, B4i |
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Desembarco del Granma |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gibara |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gran Humedal del Norte de Ciego de Ávila |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, B4i, B4ii |
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Gran Piedra: Pico Mogote |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Guanahacabibes |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Hatibonico: Baitiquirí: Imías |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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La Mensura |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Limones-Tuabaquey |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Mil Cumbres |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Pico Cristal |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Río Máximo |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii, B4i |
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Siboney: Juticí |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4iv |
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Sierra del Chorrillo |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sierra del Rosario |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Topes de Collantes |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Turquino-Bayamesa |
Cuba |
A1, A3, A4ii |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 4"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529572
♦ 5PREY REMAINS OF THE JAMAICAN OWL (PSEUDOSCOPS GRAMMICUS), GARY R. GRAVES, J. Carib. Ornithol. 20:53-55, 2007 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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