Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)

Other Names (World)
Baltimore Oriole, Northern Oriole

Family
Icteridae (New World Blackbirds)

Size
17.50 - 20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest, temperate forest and grassland. From sea-level - 500 m.

Range (Guide)

Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada (P), Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).

Vagrant to Greenland, Grenada, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom.

Breeds in southern Canada from north-eastern British Columbia and Alberta east to southern Ontario, southern Quebec and Nova Scotia, southern in central and eastern USA to central Texas, central Mississippi, north-western Georgia, western Virginia and northern Delaware. Winters mostly in Florida, coastal California, Cuba and Jamaica, and Mexico south to northern Colombia and 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 6,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (56)...)

Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) [XC562396]
by Louise Morin from L\u00e9vis, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada (song)

Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) [XC646455]
by Christopher McPherson from Dunham Recreation Complex (near Cincinnati), Hamilton County, Ohio, United States (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Icterus galbula (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula), Bullock's Oriole (Icterus bullockiorum) and Black-backed Oriole (Icterus abeillei) following AOU (1998).

DNA data indicate that this is sister-species of Black-backed Oriole (Icterus abeillei). Formerly treated as conspecific with Black-backed Oriole (Icterus abeillei) and with Bullock's Oriole (Icterus bullockiorum). Hybridizes extensively with Bullock's Oriole (Icterus bullockiorum) in a belt from southern Canada (Alberta and Saskatchewan) southern in Great Plains to southern USA (Oklahoma and Texas), but assortative mating (or selection against hybrids) evident at several locations.

References
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