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[[Image:St._Lucia_Oriole.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Richard Fray <br/> Location: Marigot Bay, St. Lucia]] | [[Image:St._Lucia_Oriole.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Richard Fray <br/> Location: Marigot Bay, St. Lucia]] | ||
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| − | Mostly black, with orange or orange-yellow on lower back, rump, shoulder, and lower belly. Immature is greener than the adult with black throat. | + | Mostly black, with orange or orange-yellow on lower back, rump, shoulder, and lower belly. Immature is greener than the adult with black throat. It is described as 'uncommon, becoming scarcer and threatened'. Among the threats described, habitat loss and nest parasitism by [[Shiny Cowbird]] seems especially important. |
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| − | + | ==Distribution== | |
| + | Endemic to the island of [[St. Lucia]] in the [[Lesser Antilles]], | ||
| + | ==Taxonomy== | ||
| + | Monotypic. | ||
==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
| − | + | Coastal vegetation, dry scrub, edges of banana plantations, plantation forest, secondary and primary forest. | |
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| + | ==Behaviour== | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
{{GSearch|Icterus+laudabilis}} | {{GSearch|Icterus+laudabilis}} | ||
| − | [[Category:Birds]] | + | [[Category:Birds]][[category:incomplete]] |
Revision as of 13:22, 18 June 2008
- Icterus laudabilis
Identification
Mostly black, with orange or orange-yellow on lower back, rump, shoulder, and lower belly. Immature is greener than the adult with black throat. It is described as 'uncommon, becoming scarcer and threatened'. Among the threats described, habitat loss and nest parasitism by Shiny Cowbird seems especially important.
Distribution
Endemic to the island of St. Lucia in the Lesser Antilles,
Taxonomy
Monotypic.
Habitat
Coastal vegetation, dry scrub, edges of banana plantations, plantation forest, secondary and primary forest.
