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	 Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)
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| Subject: | Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) 
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Date: 2005:02:12 14:14:33
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 Title: Northern Oriole
 Alternative Title: Icterus galbula
 Creator: Hollingsworth, John and Karen
 Source: WV10288-001
 Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
 Contributor: NATIONAL CONSERVATION TRAINING CENTER-PUBLICATIONS AND TRAINING MATERIALS
 Language: EN - ENGLISH
 Rights: (public domain)
 Audience: (general)
 Subject: Birds, bird, Michigan, Seney National Wildlife Refuge, migratory, passerine
 Date Issued: November 05 2001
 
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 |  |  | Guest |  |  | 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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