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) [XC580763]
by Simon Elliott from Las Am\u00e9ricas VI, M\u00e9rida Municipality, Yucat\u00e1n, Mexico (?)
Melodious Blackbird (Dives dives) [XC864046]
by Peter Boesman from Snowy Cotinga House, Changuinola, Provincia de Bocas del Toro, Panama (duet, 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.