Brewer's Blackbird
Euphagus cyanocephalus
Aves
NEAR THREATENED
Stats
- Lifespan
- 10-12 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Flock
- Biome
- Temperate grassland
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Near Threatened
About
Brewer's Blackbird is a medium-sized New World blackbird. It is named after the ornithologist Thomas Mayo Brewer.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
- 2.hatchlingA pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage and song.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Icteridae
- Genus
- Euphagus
- Species
- Euphagus cyanocephalus