Jamaican oriole
| Jamaican oriole | |
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| At Green Castle Estate, Jamaica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Icteridae |
| Genus: | Icterus |
| Species: | I. leucopteryx
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| Binomial name | |
| Icterus leucopteryx (Wagler, 1827)
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The Jamaican oriole (Icterus leucopteryx) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae.
Distribution[]
It is found in Jamaica and on the Colombian island of San Andrés. It formerly occurred on Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands but is now 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.
Habitat[]
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
References[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jamarillo, A.; Burke, P. (1999). New World Icterids. Princeton University Press.
- ^ "Ancestral State Reconstruction of Migration: Multistate Analysis Reveals Rapid Changes in New World Orioles".
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