Yellow-backed Oriole (Icterus chrysater)

Other Names (World)
Yellow-backed Oriole, Lesson's Oriole, Honda Oriole (hondae)

Family
Icteridae (New World Blackbirds)

Size
21.50 - 22 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lesson, 1844)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland and montane forest. From sea-level - 2,900 m.

Range (Guide)

Belize, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 4,999,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (46)...)

Yellow-backed Oriole (Icterus chrysater) [XC271342]
by Peter Boesman from Metropolitan Park, Panama city, Panama (song)

Yellow-backed Oriole (Icterus chrysater) [XC466594]
by Diana Carolina Macana from Vereda Vella Vista Alto, Barbosa, Colombia (song)

Subspecies
DNA data indicate that this species is closely related to Scott's Oriole (Icterus parisorum) and Audubon's Oriole (Icterus graduacauda). Hybridizes rarely with Yellow-tailed Oriole (Icterus mesomelas).

Proposed taxon hondae (based on two specimens from upper Magdalena Valley, in Colombia) appears undiagnosable and included within subspecies giraudii.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

mayensis van Rossem, 1938 - Northern Yucat�n Peninsula (south-eastern Mexico).
chrysater (Lesson, 1844) - Central and southern Yucat�n Peninsula (south to Belize) and southern Mexico (inland southern Veracruz, extreme eastern Oaxaca and Chiapas) south to northern Nicaragua.
giraudii Cassin, 1848 - Central Panama (on both coasts) to north-western Venezuela (Miranda), central and south-western Colombia and extreme north-western Ecuador (Esmeraldas).
hondae Chapman, 1914 - Colombia (upper Magdalena Valley).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-backed Oriole (Icterus chrysater) - 10 files

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