Slender-Billed Grackle (Quiscalus palustris)

Posted on 31 December, 1910 in Extinct • Tagged with Mexico, family-ICTERIDAE, extinct-1910s

Year Last Seen:

1910

Comments:

This species was known from the Rio Lerma area, Mexico, but it has not been recorded since 1910 and is now Extinct. The draining of its wetland habitat is likely to have been the cause.

Habitat:

It inhabited tule-cattail and sedge filled marshes.

Causes:

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