Black birds

The blackbird is a bird of the order Passeriformes, of the Icteridae family. It is also known as graúna (derived from the Tupi “guira-una” = black bird), black-chico (Maranhão and Piauí), corn-pulling, chopim, chupim (São Paulo), hickey (Mato Grosso), assum-preto and cupido (Ceará), blackbird and craúna (Paraíba).