Jamaican oriole

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Jamaican oriole
Jamaican oriole (Icterus leucopteryx leucopteryx).jpg
At Green Castle Estate, Jamaica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Icteridae
Genus: Icterus
Species:
I. leucopteryx
Binomial name
Icterus leucopteryx
(Wagler, 1827)
Icterus leucopteryx map.svg

The Jamaican oriole (Icterus leucopteryx) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae.

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Distribution

It is found in Jamaica and on the Colombian island of San Andrés. The subspecies I. l. bairdi formerly occurred on Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands but is now extinct, making the species extirpated there.

Taxonomy

The species is more closely related to the orioles of the North American mainland, [2] such as the Baltimore oriole ( Icterus galbula ), [3] and the orange oriole ( Icterus auratus ) [4] than to the other Caribbean members of the genus.

Juvenile on San Andres, Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia Icterus leucopteryx -San Andres, Archipelago of San Andres, Colombia -juvenile-8.jpg
Juvenile on San Andrés, Archipelago of San Andrés, Colombia

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Icterus leucopteryx". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22724090A94848298. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22724090A94848298.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. Omland, Kevin; Lanyon, S.; Fritz, S. (2009). "Losses of female song with changes from tropical to temperate breeding in the New World blackbirds". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 276 (1664): 1971–1980. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1626. PMC   2677260 . PMID   19324802.
  3. Jamarillo, A.; Burke, P. (1999). New World Icterids. Princeton University Press.
  4. "Ancestral State Reconstruction of Migration: Multistate Analysis Reveals Rapid Changes in New World Orioles".