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Baltimore oriole, northern oriole (Icterus galbula)
Subject: Baltimore oriole, northern oriole (Icterus galbula)
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Baltimore oriole, northern oriole (Icterus galbula)


Description Baltimore Oriole -- Icterus galbula -- Rondeau Provincial Park -- 2008 May
Date 17 May 2008
Author Mdf https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mdf
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icterus-galbula-002.jpg

The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its name from the resemblance of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of Lord Baltimore. Observations of interbreeding between the Baltimore oriole and the western Bullock's oriole, Icterus bullockii, led to both being classified as a single species, called the northern oriole, from 1973-1995. The Baltimore oriole is the state bird of Maryland. It is also the inspiration for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team. Order: Passeriformes, Family: Icteridae, Genus: Icterus, Species: Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)

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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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