- Icterus pectoralis
Identification
21-24cm. Bright orange, black back, mask, throat, and spots on breast; wings are black with large white patches. Tail is black. Long, pointed black bill with silvery base to lower mandible, long tail, dark eyes, blue grey legs. Sexes similar. Immature - similar to adult, but paler yellow-orange, with olive-green back and tail, dusky wings, and little or no black on face, throat, or breast.
Distribution
Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the United States.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Ppen woodlands, dry scrub, forest edges, and around ranches and villages, parks, suburbs, and gardens.
Behaviour
It forages in shrubs and trees; the diet includes insects, fruits, berries and nectar.
It builds a long, hanging pouch woven of fibres and thin roots, suspended in the fork of a tree branch. The eggs are white with black and purple scrawls.
