Spot-breasted oriole

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Spot-breasted oriole
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Icterus pectoralis espinachi, Costa Rica
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Icteridae
Genus: Icterus
Species:
I. pectoralis
Binomial name
Icterus pectoralis
(Wagler, 1829)

The spot-breasted oriole (Icterus pectoralis) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae.

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It is a mid-sized songbird and generally typical oriole. It is bright orange overall with a black bib and black spotting on the sides of the breast. The sexes are similar looking generally but females and juveniles are olive-green on the back and tail, dusky wings, and little or no black on face, throat, or breast. [2] Adults measure 21–24 cm (8.3–9.4 in) in length. Males weigh around 50 g (1.8 oz) on average, while females weigh 45 g (1.6 oz). [2] [3] The wing bone measures 8.8–11.4 cm (3.5–4.5 in), the tail measures 8.5–11.2 cm (3.3–4.4 in), the culmen measures 1.9–2.4 cm (0.75–0.94 in) and the tarsus measures 2.6–3 cm (1.0–1.2 in). [4]

It is native to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

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

The spot-breasted oriole ranges only on the Pacific side of Central America. An introduced breeding population also exists on the Atlantic coast of southern Florida. The population is considered to be established enough to be "countable" for birdwatchers by the ABA. [2]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2020). "Icterus pectoralis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020: e.T22724105A138279951. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22724105A138279951.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Spot-breasted Oriole Life History, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology".
  3. CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses by John B. Dunning Jr. (Editor). CRC Press (1992), ISBN   978-0849342585.
  4. New World Blackbirds: The Icterids by Alvaro Jaramillo & Peter Burke. Christopher Helm Publishing (1999), ISBN   978-0713643336

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