Yellow-backed Oriole - BirdForum Opus

Subspecies hondae
Photo by Digitalbcon
Bogotá, Colombia, South America, January 2011

Icterus chrysater

Identification

21–24 cm (8¼-9½ in)

Golden-yellow
Black forehead, throat, wings and tail

Distribution

Subspecies mayensis
Photo by djgary
Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico, October 2017

Southeastern Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

This is a polytipic species^[1] consisting of four subspecies:

I. c. chrysater:

Southern Mexico (southern Veracruz) to Belize, Guatemala and northern Nicaragua

I. c. mayensis:

South-eastern Mexico (northern Yucatán Peninsula)

I. c. giraudii:

Panama (west to Veraguas) to northern and western Colombia and northern Venezuela

I. c. hondae:

Colombia (upper Magdalena Valle)

Habitat

Transition forest, subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and heavily degraded former forest, forest edges, woodlands, clearings in lowlands. Finca at 1700 meters.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of insects, nectar and fruit.

Breeding

They are thought to be monogamous and solitary breeders.

References

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2014 and February 2018)
BF Member observations

List of references

Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-backed Oriole. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-backed_Oriole

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