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Jamaican oriole

Jamaican oriole

Species of bird

The Jamaican oriole (Icterus leucopteryx) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae.

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Distribution

It is found in Jamaica and on the Colombian island of San Andrés. The subspecies I. l. bairdi formerly occurred on Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands but is now extinct, making the species extirpated there.

Taxonomy

The species is more closely related to the orioles of the North American mainland,[2] such as the Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula),[3] and the orange oriole (Icterus auratus)[4] than to the other Caribbean members of the genus.

Juvenile on San Andrés, Archipelago of San Andrés, Colombia

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

References

  1. [1]
    BirdLife International (2016). "Icterus leucopteryx". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22724090A94848298. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22724090A94848298.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. [2]
    Omland, Kevin; Lanyon, S.; Fritz, S. (2009). "Losses of female song with changes from tropical to temperate breeding in the New World blackbirds". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 276 (1664): 1971–1980. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1626. PMC 2677260. PMID 19324802.
  3. [3]
    Jamarillo, A.; Burke, P. (1999). New World Icterids. Princeton University Press.
  4. [4]
    "Ancestral State Reconstruction of Migration: Multistate Analysis Reveals Rapid Changes in New World Orioles".


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