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Definition of Crow blackbird
1. Noun. Long-tailed American blackbird having iridescent black plumage.
Generic synonyms: Blackbird, New World Blackbird
Group relationships: Genus Quiscalus, Quiscalus
Specialized synonyms: Purple Grackle, Quiscalus Quiscula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crow Blackbird
Literary usage of Crow blackbird
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine (1832)
"The great crow blackbird is also very numerous in the Wesi Indies, Mexico, and
Louisiana; but it does not frequent the Northern, or even the Middle States, ..."
2. Legislation for the Protection of Birds Other Than Game Birds by Theodore Sherman Palmer (1900)
"Illinois English sparrow, chicken hawk, crow, crow blackbird. ... Massachusetts
English sparrow, birds of prey, jays, crow, crow blackbird, ..."
3. Field Book of Birds of the Southwestern United States by Roger Tory Peterson, Gilbert Haven Trafton, Luther E. Wyman, Elizabeth F. Burnell (1916)
"The crow and crow blackbird do their chief damage to corn. The red-winged blackbird
is especially destructive in the Mississippi Valley. ..."
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