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) [XC304281]
by Esau Toaki Villarreal Olvera from Monta\u00f1a de Izopo, Francisco Moraz\u00e1n, Honduras (call, song)
Melodious Blackbird (Dives dives) [XC453816]
by Manuel Grosselet from University of Georgia, Costa Rica, Costa Rica (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.