Icterus cucullatus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical deciduous forests, gallery forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, arid lowland scrubs, arid lowland scrubs, riparian thickets • Maximum Elevation: 1,900 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,165 meters (0 to 10,384 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
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Biology

Diet

Primarily: Insects. Lesser Quantities of: Fruit, Nectar.

Reproduction

• Nest Location: Mid-story/canopy nesting
• Clutch Size: 3-5
• Length of Incubation : 12-14 days
• Days to Fledge : 14
• Number of Broods: 2, occasionally 3

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

Similar Species

Orchard Oriole

Members of the genus Icterus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 52 species and subspecies in this genus:

I. abeillei (Black-Backed Oriole) · I. auratus (Orange Oriole) · I. auricapillus (Orange-Crowned Oriole) · I. bonana (Martinique Oriole) · I. bullockii (BullockÌs Oriole) · I. bullockii bullockii (BullockÌs Oriole) · I. cayanensis (Epaulet Oriole) · I. cayanensis cayanensis (Epaulet Oriole) · I. chrysater (Yellow-Backed Oriole) · I. chrysater chrysater (Yellow-Backed Oriole) · I. chrysocephalus (Moriche Oriole) · I. croconotus (Orange-Backed Troupial) · I. cucullatus (Palm-Leaf Oriole) · I. cucullatus cucullatus (Hooded Oriole) · I. cucullatus sennetti (Hooded Oriole) · I. dominicensis (Hispaniolan Oriole) · I. dominicensis dominicensis (Black-Cowled Oriole) · I. galbula (Black-Backed Oriole) · I. galbula galbula (Black-Backed Oriole) · I. graceannae (White-Edged Oriole) · I. graduacauda (Black-Headed Oriole) · I. graduacauda audubonii (Audubon's Oriole) · I. graduacauda graduacauda (Audubon's Oriole) · I. gularis (Lichtenstein's Oriole) · I. gularis gularis (Altamira Oriole) · I. icterus (Venezuelan Troupial) · I. jamacaii (Campo Troupial) · I. laudabilis (St Lucia Oriole) · I. laudabilis laudabilis (St. Lucia Oriole) · I. leucopteryx (Jamaican Oriole) · I. leucopteryx leucopteryx (Jamaican Oriole) · I. maculialatus (Bar-Winged Oriole) · I. melanopsis (Cuban Oriole) · I. mesomelas (Yellow-Tailed Oriole) · I. mesomelas mesomelas (Yellow-Tailed Oriole) · I. nigrogularis (Yellow Oriole) · I. nigrogularis nigrogularis (Yellow Oriole) · I. northropi (Bahama Oriole) · I. oberi (Montserrat Oriole) · I. parisorum (Scott's Oriole) · I. pectoralis (Spotted-Breasted Oriole) · I. pectoralis pectoralis (Spot-Breasted Oriole) · I. portoricensis (Puerto Rican Oriole) · I. prosthemelas (Black-Cowled Oriole) · I. pustulatus (Western Streak-Headed Oriole) · I. pustulatus pustulatus (Streak-Backed Oriole) · I. pyrrhopterus (Variable Oriole) · I. spurius (Bastard Baltimore) · I. spurius fuertesi (Orchard Oriole) · I. spurius spurius (Bastard Baltimore) · I. wagleri (Black-Vented Oriole) · I. wagleri wagleri (Black-Vented Oriole)

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Notes

Contributors

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 10, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7994
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-179070
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13823494
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179070
• IUCN ID: 216018
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPBXB9080
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13992

Footnotes

1. Mean = 287.140 meters (942.060 feet), Standard Deviation = 542.820 based on 2,037 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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