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The female is brownish-grey with slight hints of the male's iridescence. The female's eye is dark brown, while the male's is bright yellow. Overall, they resemble the eastern member of the same genus, the rusty blackbird; Brewer's blackbird, however, has a shorter bill and the male's head is iridescent purple. [2]
It contains two extant species: Brewer's blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus, and rusty blackbird E. carolinus. [2] The living species are very similar medium-sized birds. Adult males have mainly black plumage and a bright yellow eye; females are dark gray-brown.
Adults have a pointed bill and a pale yellow eye. They have black plumage with faint green and purple gloss; the female is greyer. "Rusty" refers to the brownish winter plumage. They resemble the western member of the same genus, the Brewer's blackbird; however, Brewer's has a longer bill and the male's head is iridescent green.
Scrub blackbird: Dives warczewiczi (Cabanis, 1861) 77 Melodious blackbird: Dives dives (Deppe, 1830) 78 Cuban blackbird: Ptiloxena atroviolacea (d'Orbigny, 1839) 79 Rusty blackbird: Euphagus carolinus (Müller, PLS, 1776) 80 Brewer's blackbird: Euphagus cyanocephalus (Wagler, 1829) 81 Common grackle: Quiscalus quiscula (Linnaeus, 1758) 82 ...
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For example, the male great-tailed grackle is 60% heavier than the female. The smallest icterid species is the orchard oriole , in which the female averages 15 cm in length (6 in) and 18 g (0.040 lb) in weight, while the largest is the Amazonian oropendola , the male of which measures 52 cm (20 in) and weighs about 550 g (1.21 lb).
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