Animals / Bird

Baltimore oriole

Icterus galbula · Icteridae

The Baltimore oriole is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its common 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.

Where the Baltimore oriole lives

Recorded in United States of America, Canada and Costa Rica (North America).

Most records fall in Ontario, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, New York and Michigan.

See the Baltimore oriole’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 4,301,405 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.