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Icterus spurius

(bastard Baltimore)

Overview

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

basket-bird, bastard Baltimore, Brown Oriole, Fuertes' oriole, ochre oriole, orchard hang-nest, Orchard Hangnest, Orchard Oriole, Orchard Starling

Common Names in French:

oriole des vergers

Common Names in German:

Gartentrupial

Common Names in Japanese:

アカクロムクドリモドキ

Common Names in Spanish:

Bolsero Casta, Bolsero castaño

Description

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Physical Description

Adult Female: Body: Underparts: yellowish Upperparts: olive.Adult Male: Head : Hood : black Bill: Curvature: slightly curved Lower Mandible: blue-gray Upper Mandible: black Body: Back: black Rump : chestnut Underparts: chestnut Tail: black with narrow white tipes.

Size/Age/Growth

About 6 to 7.75 inches long, with a wingspan of 9.25 to 10.25 inches. Adults weigh about 0.7 ounces .

Habitat

The Orchard Oriole frequents open country with scattered trees , old orchards, groves, streamsides along farmlands, nurseries, prairies, residential areas, and occasionally marshland..

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, gallery forests, tropical deciduous forests • Minimum Elevation: 700 meters • Maximum Elevation: 1,800 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Upper subtropical: higher slopes, 500-1,600 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,911 meters (0 to 9,551 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

Biology

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Diet

The diet consists of insects, fruit and nectar. The food is gathered off vegetation.

Reproduction

The breeding season begins in mid-May, peaks later that month, and extends to late June. Breeding habitat includes open areas with trees . The nest is usually in a tree 1-15 m (4-50 feet) above the ground . The nest hangs from a fork in a branch and is a long, bag-like, or pensile , structure woven out of grasses and lined with fine grass and plant down . The female lays 3-7 (usually 3-5) eggs that she incubates for approximately 12 days. The young are altricial and fledge 11-14 days after hatching . Both adults brood and feed the young while they are in the nest. After the young leave the nest, the parents split the brood and each adult takes care of half of their offspring. The young stay with the adults until the fall migration.

Migration

Migratory

The song is a group of loud whistled notes .

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Icterus spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

Similar Species

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Hooded 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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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 06, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Mean = 28.750 meters (94.324 feet), Standard Deviation = 44.970 based on 137,723 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 2012-07-18