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Baltimore Oriole

Icterus galbula

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Icteridae

The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) 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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 53United Kingdom · 4Spain · 1