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Unicolored Blackbird
Agelasticus cyanopus (Vieillot, 1819)
Icteridae — Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds
Unicolored Blackbird, Agelasticus cyanopus, is a passerine of the blackbird family that breeds in south-central and eastern Brazil. It is a marsh bird, tied to wetlands with floating and emergent plants, and also uses nearby grassland, cropland and low riverside growth. The species is sexually dimorphic, with adult males in uniform black and a faint blue sheen. Females and young are different, and the female plumage varies between subspecies. It was first described in 1819 and is placed in Icteridae, the family that includes the New World blackbirds, orioles and oropendolas.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Icteridae — Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: sc, e Brazil
