Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucullatus) [XC264313]
by Richard E. Webster from Portal, Arizona, United States (dawn song)
Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucullatus) [XC772829]
by Richard E. Webster from Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge, Cochise County, Arizona, United States (dawn song, imitation)
Subspecies
Proposed subspecies restrictus, described from western Mexico (Agiabampo, in extreme southern Sonora), is synonymized with nelsoni. Described subspecies duplexus (from Mujeres I, off north-eastern Yucatán, in Mexico), cozumelae (from Cozumel I, off north-eastern Yucatán) and masoni (from Manatee, in Belize) are all subsumed in igneus.
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
nelsoni Ridgway, 1885 - Breeds in south-western USA (northern California east to western Texas), south to north-western Mexico (northern Baja California, Sonora and northern Chihuahua). Non-breeding range extends south to Sinaloa (western Mexico).
trochiloides Grinnell, 1927 - Central and southern Baja California (from San Ignacio south to Cabo San Lucas).
cucullatus Swainson, 1827 - Breeds from southern USA (southern Texas in middle Rio Grande Valley) southern along edge of Mexican Plateau (Chihuahua and Nuevo León) to Puebla, Oaxaca and southern Veracruz. Winters from Jalisco south to Guerrero and southern Oaxaca, in southern Mexico.
sennetti Ridgway, 1901 - Breeds from southern USA (southern Texas in lower Rio Grande Valley) south to eastern Mexico (southern Tamaulipas). Winters south to northern Guerrero and Morelos, in southern Mexico.
igneus Ridgway, 1885 - Southern Mexico from eastern Tabasco, northern Chiapas and coastal Yucatán Peninsula (including adjacent islands of Holbox, Mujeres, Cozumel and others) south to northern Belize.
restrictus van Rossem, 1945 - North-western Mexico (southern Sonora).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet