Family Icteridae - Blackbirds, New World Orioles, Cowbirds
Campo Troupials are my favorite Icterids
Icterids or New World blackbirds make up a family, the Icteridae, of small to medium-sized, often colorful, New World passerine birds. The family contains 108 species and is divided into 30 genera. Most species have black as a predominant plumage color, often enlivened by yellow, orange, or red. The species in the family vary widely in size, shape, behavior, and coloration. The name, meaning "jaundiced ones" (from the prominent yellow feathers of many species) comes from the Ancient Greek ikteros via the Latin ictericus. This group includes the New World blackbirds, New World orioles, the bobolink, meadowlarks, grackles, cowbirds, oropendolas, and caciques.
Despite the similar names, the first groups are only distantly related to the Old World common blackbird (a thrush) or the Old World orioles.
The Icteridae are not to be confused with the Icteriidae, a family created in 2017 and consisting of one species — the yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens).
Link to Old World Orioles Here
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) McKee Marsh Illinois
Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucullatus) Loreto Baja Mexico
Campo Troupial (Icterus jamacaii) Alfonso Claudio, Espirito Santo, Brazil
Orange-backed Troupial (Icterus croconotus) Pousada Aguape - Fazenda São José Zona Rural, Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Chopí Blackbird (Gnorimopsar chopi) Emas National Park, Goias Brazil
Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) McKee Marsh Illinois
Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) Dungeness Sequim Washington
Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) Elwha River Mouth Port Angeles Washington
Giant Cowbird (Molothrus oryzivorus) Pantanal, Encontro das Águas State Park, Porto Jofre, Cuiaba River, Brazil
Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis) Mindo, Ecuador - Chocoan Lowlands and Valley
Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) West Chicago Marsh Illinois
Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) Las Cruces New Mexico NMSU Campus
Grayish Baywing (Agelaioides badius) Porto Alegre Lodge, Pantanal
Oropendola - Crested Oropendola - Psarocolius decumanus - Pousada Aguape - Fazenda São José Zona Rural, Aquidauana, Mato Grosso Sul
Oropendola - Russet-backed Oropendola - Psarocolius angustifrons - San Isidro Lodge, Eastern Andes, Ecuador
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) Danada Preserve Wheaton Illinois
Scarlet-rumped Cacique (Cacicus uropygialis) San Isidro Lodge, Eastern Andes, Ecuador
Red-rumped Cacique (Cacicus haemorrhous) Needs ID - Unamar Golden Lion Tamarin Municipal Natural Park, Rio de Janeiro
Red-rumped Cacique (Cacicus haemorrhous) Alfonso Claudio, Espirito Santo, Brazil
Yellow-rumped Cacique (Cacicus cela) Illeus, Bahia Brazil, Una Township Area
Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) Owen's Valley California
Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) Potholes State Park Washington
Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna) McKee Marsh Illinois