Endangered
Saffron-cowled Blackbird
Xanthopsar flavus
Saffron-cowled Blackbird is a perching bird in the family Icteridae (order Passeriformes) — Xanthopsar flavus, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The rest of their head, their rump, and most of their underparts are yellow with a tinge of orange on the forehead and breast. Their undertail coverts are black with yellow tips and their thighs are black. Their wings are mostly black with yellow marginal and lesser upperwing coverts that form an epaulet.
The saffron-cowled blackbird averages 20 cm (7.9 in) long. Males weigh an average of 42.5 g (1.5 oz) and females average 39.3 g (1.4 oz).
Published measurements include mass about 41.
Range and habitat
The saffron-cowled blackbird is found in southeastern Paraguay, far southern Brazil's Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul states, eastern Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina's Corrientes and Entre Rios provinces. It formerly was found from southern Paraguay south through Argentina well into Buenos Aires Province. It inhabits a mosaic landscape of marshes, wet grasslands, bogs, pastures, and agricultural fields such as of rice.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Seeds, both wild and cultivated, are a very minor part of its diet. It forages on the ground in flocks that "roll" across the landscape.
It probes soil, plucks prey from grass and low vegetation, and also captures winged ants in the air. The saffron-cowled blackbird breeds between October and December. It nests solitarily or in colonies of up to about 40 nests. In colonies breeding is synchronized.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Saffron-cowled Blackbird is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Saffron-cowled Blackbird, Wikidata item Q1591523. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
