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Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)

Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) - Female
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) - Female
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) - Female

About Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Perching Birds
  • Family: American Blackbirds and Orioles

The Baltimore oriole 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 17th-century 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 to 1995. Research by James Rising, a professor of zoology at the University of Toronto, and others showed that the two birds actually did not interbreed significantly.

Source: Wikipedia

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