Euphagus magnirostris is an extinct species of bird in the family Icteridae. It is sometimes called the large-billed blackbird[1] or big-billed blackbird.[2] It is known from Late Pleistocene fossils found in the La Brea Tar Pits of California, as well as the Talara Tar Seeps of northwestern Peru and the Mene de Inciarte Tar Seep of Venezuela.[1] E. magnirostris was named on the basis of a lower mandible from La Brea; this portion most resembles that of the living Brewer's blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus), but is larger and stockier. The rest of the skeleton is, as far as is known, similar to E. cyanocephalus.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Icteridae |
| Genus: | Euphagus |
| Species: | †E. magnirostris
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| †Euphagus magnirostris Miller, 1929
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References
edit- ^ a b Steadman, David W.; Oswald, Jessica A. (2020-07-22). "New species of troupial (Icterus) and cowbird (Molothrus) from ice-age Peru". The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 132 (1): 91. doi:10.1676/1559-4491-132.1.91. ISSN 1559-4491.
- ^ a b "Euphagus magnirostris". www.utep.edu. Retrieved 2024-08-22.
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