Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest and shrubland, subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest and moist shrubland. From sea-level - 1,000 m.
Melodious Blackbird (Dives dives) [XC447733]
by Will Sweet from Mapastepec, Chiapas, Mexico (song)
Melodious Blackbird (Dives dives) [XC351371]
by from The Lodge at Pico Bonito, El Pino, Atlantida, Honduras (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
According to molecular data, genus is one of the more ancestral members of the quiscaline group. May form a superspecies with Scrub Blackbird (Dives warczewiczi) and previously treated as conspecific.