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.

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) [XC469531]
by Johana Zuluaga-Bonilla- Ixobrychus from R\u00edo Yaracuy, Monta\u00f1a de Sorte, Monumento Natural Cerro Mar\u00eda Lionza, Yaracuy, Venezuela (song)

Yellow-backed Oriole (Icterus chrysater) [XC632612]
by Daniel Errichetti from Granja Villa Luz \/ Guadalupe, Huila, 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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