Carib Grackle (Quiscalus lugubris)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosendo Fraga
Keyword(s):  
Quiscalus Lugubris

scholarly journals Stealing of dunked food in Carib grackles (Quiscalus lugubris)

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Morand-Ferron ◽  
Mélisa Veillette ◽  
Louis Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Quiscalus Lugubris

Structural features of the spermatozoon of a passeridan bird, the Carib grackle, Quiscalus lugubris

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom A. Aire ◽  
Lizette du Plessis ◽  
Mahesh S. Deokar ◽  
Eugene Rennie ◽  
Sunil K. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Structural Features ◽  
Quiscalus Lugubris

Carib Grackles Imitate Conspecific and Zenaida Dove Tutors

Behaviour ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 134 (13-14) ◽  
pp. 1003-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Templeton ◽  
Kathleen Brown ◽  
Louis Lefebvre ◽  
Michelle Koelle
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Foraging Ecology ◽  
Scramble Competition ◽  
Opportunistic Species ◽  
Quiscalus Lugubris ◽  
Zenaida Aurita

AbstractIn Barbados, Carib grackles (Quiscalus lugubris) forage in opportunistic aggregations that include territorial Zenaida doves (Zenaida aurita) and flocks of conspecifics. In searching for and handling food, grackles use complex beak movements and modulate priority of access with a mixture of postural signals and intra- and interspecific scramble (unaggressive) competition. We show in two experiments that wild-caught grackles learn as readily from a Zenaida dove as they do from a conspecific tutor, whether tutors use similar or different food-finding techniques. Grackles also imitate the technical variant that the hetero- and conspecific tutors were shaped to demonstrate: those who observed a Zenaida dove used the dove's closed beak pecking technique, while those who observed a conspecific used the grackle's open beak pulling, probing or prying. Our findings suggest that imitation, like other forms of social learning, is strongly influenced by a species' foraging ecology. In particular, the ability to imitate novel motor skills should be favored in opportunistic species which exhibit scramble competition and which use complex searching and handling techniques to forage on embedded foods.

Spermatid differentiation, with particular reference to acrosomogenesis, in the passeridan bird, Carib grackle (Quiscalus lugubris)

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 8-20
Author(s):  
Tom A. Aire ◽  
Lizette du Plessis ◽  
Eugene Rennie ◽  
Sunil K. Gupta ◽  
Mahesh Deokar
Keyword(s):  
Quiscalus Lugubris

Quiscalus lugubris fortirostris in Surinam

The Auk ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-329
Author(s):  
F. Haverschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Quiscalus Lugubris

Sexual maturity, molting, and reproductive activity in the Carib Grackle (Quiscalus lugubris)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa F. Saavedra ◽  
Yadi X. Figueroa ◽  
Víctor H. Serrano-Cardozo ◽  
Martha P. Ramírez-Pinilla
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Maturity ◽  
Reproductive Activity ◽  
Quiscalus Lugubris

Mixed-species aggregations in birds: zenaida doves, Zenaida aurita, respond to the alarm calls of carib grackles, Quiscalus lugubris

2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea S. Griffin ◽  
Rahul S. Savani ◽  
Kristina Hausmanis ◽  
Louis Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Alarm Calls ◽  
Mixed Species ◽  
Quiscalus Lugubris ◽  
Zenaida Aurita

scholarly journals Ocurrencia de Enteroparásitos en Poblaciones de Quiscalus lugubris (Aves: Passeriformes, Icteridae) del Semiárido Urbano del Estado Falcón, Venezuela

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Dalmiro Cazorla Perfetti ◽  
Pedro Morales Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Quiscalus Lugubris ◽  
Para Determinar

Los parásitos intestinales patógenos de aves paseriformes pueden potencialmente tener importancia zoonótica. Se realizó un estudio para determinar la ocurrencia de parásitos intestinales en heces de poblaciones de Quiscalus lugubris («torditos negros») (Aves, Passeriformes: Icteridae) en la ciudad de Coro, estado Falcón, Venezuela. El diagnóstico parasitológico de las muestras (n=156) se hizo mediante los métodos directo, flotación de Willis-Molloy y Faust, sedimentación en tubo y coloración de Kinyoun. Se detectaron hasta tres taxones de protozoarios, helmintos y acantocéfalos en 109 muestras (69.9%). Isospora spp (59.0%), Criptosporidium spp (37.8%) y el acantocéfalo Mediorhynchus spp (6.4%) fueron los enteroparásitos más frecuentes. Todos los parásitos encontrados representan nuevos registros para Q. lugubris en Venezuela.

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