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title: "Wilgowron meksykański"
description: "Quiscalus mexicanus — Ptaki. The great-tailed grackle or Mexican grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is a medium-sized, highly social passerine bird native to North and South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/great-tailed-grackle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Wilgowron meksykański

> Quiscalus mexicanus — Ptaki. The great-tailed grackle or Mexican grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is a medium-sized, highly social passerine bird native to North and South America.

- Scientific name: *Quiscalus mexicanus*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `urban` (Miasta i ogrody)
- iNaturalist observations: 168026
- Wikidata: [Q1234856](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1234856)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9607](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9607)

## Names

- en: Great-tailed Grackle
- de: Dohlengrackel
- es: Zanate mexicano
- fr: Quiscale à longue queue
- nl: Langstaarttroepiaal
- pl: Wilgowron meksykański

## Countries with the most observations

US (85200), MX (59771), CR (5733), PA (3588), CO (2013), GT (1644), HN (1550), EC (849), BZ (769), SV (660), NI (519), PE (83)

## Summary

The great-tailed grackle or Mexican grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is a medium-sized, highly social passerine bird native to North and South America. A member of the family Icteridae, it is one of 10 extant species of grackle and is closely related to the boat-tailed grackle and the extinct slender-billed grackle.  In the southern and southwestern United States, the grackle is sometimes referred to simply as a "blackbird" or (erroneously) a "crow" due to its glossy black plumage; however, grackles form their own unique genus that is separate from other "blackbirds", such as the red-winged and Brewer's blackbirds, despite…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-tailed_grackle

## Photo

![Wilgowron meksykański](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/great-tailed-grackle/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Jackson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193327633

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/great-tailed-grackle?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).