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) [XC842285]
by Manuel Grosselet from UJAT Las Puertas, Centro, Tabasco, Mexico (song)
Melodious Blackbird (Dives dives) [XC864043]
by Joost van Bruggen from Snowy Cotinga House, Changuinola, Provincia de Bocas del Toro, Panama (call, 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.