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Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)
Subject: | Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)
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From: Bug@Boo.com (Bug-a-Boo)
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals
Subject: Bird -- - NORIOL01.JPG
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:07:56 GMT
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From: phoby
File To Comment: animal4/NOriole01.jpg
looks like a Northern Oriole, Icterus galbula.
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Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)
French: Oriole de Baltimore German: Baltimoretrupial Spanish: Turpial de Baltimore
Other common names: Northern Oriole (when treated as conspecific with I. bullockii)
Taxonomy: C.[oracias] Galbula Linnaeus, 1758, America = Virginia, USA.
DNA data indicate that this is sister-species of I. abeillei. Formerly treated as conspecific with latter and with I. bullockii; hybridizes extensively with I. bullockii in a belt from S Canada (Alberta and Saskatchewan) S in Great Plains to S USA (Oklahoma and Texas), but assortative mating (or selection against hybrids) evident at several locations. Monotypic.
Distribution:
Breeds in S Canada from NE British Columbia and Alberta E to S Ontario, S Quebec and Nova Scotia, S in C & E USA to C Texas, C Mississippi, NW Georgia, W Virginia and N Delaware; winters mostly in Florida, coastal California, Cuba and Jamaica, and Mexico S to N Colombia and Venezuela. |
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