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 LC    Yellow-tailed Oriole* Id (Atlas):
    Icterus mesomelas

Description (10)
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Family
Icteridae (New World Blackbirds)

Size
21.50 - 23 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Wagler, 1829)

Range (Guide)
Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela.

Vagrant to Cuba.

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 (62)...)

 
Yellow-tailed Oriole (Icterus mesomelas) [XC150314]
     by Orlando Jarqu\u00edn G. from El Airo, Espindola, Loja, Ecuador (call)

 
Yellow-tailed Oriole (Icterus mesomelas) [XC260045]
     by John V. Moore from Manab\u00ed: R\u00edo Ayampe, Ecuador (song)

Subspecies
Hybridizes rarely with Yellow-backed Oriole (Icterus chrysater). Form Icterus xantholemus, known only by type specimen supposedly from Ecuador, was previously thought to be immature of present species or perhaps a hybrid of unknown parentage, but has now been shown to be a synonym of Saffron-cowled Blackbird (Xanthopsar flavus).

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

  • mesomelas (Wagler, 1829)   -  Southern Mexico (from Veracruz) south to Honduras.
  • salvinii Cassin, 1867   -  Caribbean lowlands from Nicaragua south to western Panama (Bocas del Toro).
  • carrikeri Todd, 1917   -  Panama (from east of Canal) southern on both coasts to western and central Colombia and north-western Venezuela (Zulia).
  • taczanowskii Ridgway, 1901   -  Pacific coast of Ecuador and north-western Peru (Tumbes, also upper Marañón Valley).
  • xantholemus Gil Lletget, 1918   -  Ecuador (probable immature taczanowskii or unknown hybrid).



References
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Files:
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