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The Old World orioles (Oriolidae) are an Old World family of passerine birds. The family contains 41 species which are divided in 4 genera . The family includes two extinct species from New Zealand that are placed in the genus Turnagra .
The orchard oriole (Icterus spurius) is the smallest species of icterid. The subspecies of the Caribbean coast of Mexico, I. s. fuertesi, is sometimes considered a separate species, the ochre oriole or Fuertes's oriole. The orchard oriole is a small bird with a length of 5.9-7.1 inches, a weight of 0.6-1.0 ounces, and a wingspan of 9.8 inches.
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 ...
Orioles have always been a bird watching favorite, even before the species became a household name thanks to America's pastime. The Baltimore Oriole is known for its striking orange plumage ...
Yellow-backed oriole: Icterus chrysater (Lesson, RP, 1844) 34 Audubon's oriole: Icterus graduacauda Lesson, RP, 1839: 35 Jamaican oriole: Icterus leucopteryx (Wagler, 1827) 36 Orange oriole: Icterus auratus Bonaparte, 1850: 37 Altamira oriole: Icterus gularis (Wagler, 1829) 38 Yellow oriole: Icterus nigrogularis (Hahn, 1819) 39 Bullock's oriole
Bullock's oriole (Icterus bullockii) is a small New World blackbird. At one time, this species and the Baltimore oriole were considered to be a single species, the northern oriole . This bird is named after William Bullock , an English amateur naturalist .
The species is now placed in the genus Oriolus that Linnaeus introduced in 1766. [4] The Eurasian golden oriole and the Indian golden oriole were formerly considered conspecific, but in 2005 they were treated as separate species by the ornithologists Pamela Rasmussen and John Anderton, in the first edition of their Birds of South Asia.
The song of the hooded oriole tends to be short and abrupt. The notes are rapid and lack the whistling nature of many other oriole species, and often sound nasal and whiny in nature. [6] There is a high amount of variation both geographically and individually within the song of the hooded oriole. Each male also sings many different types of songs.