bronzed cowbird

taken at meco loco ruin cancun mexico..........species id is just my best guess please be welcome to id any and all wildlife as mexico is a world of the new and unkown to me...everyday is like xmas!

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Thibaud Aronson

Lion

Hi, that's not a melodious blackbird, it's a bronzed cowbird, the melodious blackbird is larger, has a thinner bill, and doesn't have red eyes. Posted 8 years ago
1. Jef braund
  
  Lion
  
  thanx Thibaud muchly appreciated......cheers Posted 8 years ago

The Bronzed Cowbird

The Bronzed Cowbird , , is a small icterid.

It breeds from the southern U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana south through Central America to Panama. An isolated population on the Caribbean coast of Colombia is sometimes treated as a separate species, the Bronze-brown Cowbird .

The male Bronzed Cowbird is 20 cm long and weighs 68 g, with green-bronze glossed black plumage and red eyes. The female is 18.5 cm long and weighs 56 g... more

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Similar species: Perching Birds

Species identified by Jef braund