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Yellow-backed Oriole

Icterus chrysater

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) sergio_ou, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Colombia.

Colombia	1,000
Bogota Capital District	356
Mexico	334
Quintana Roo	225
Panama	185
Antioquia	173
Cundinamarca	130
Provincia de Panamá	77
Magdalena	61
Chiapas	57

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Tree nestingListed by a harvested source as nesting in trees.BIRDBASE avian traits database
Invertebrate eaterListed by a harvested source as primarily eating invertebrates.BIRDBASE avian traits database
Pendulous nestingListed by a harvested source as building pendulous nests.BIRDBASE avian traits database
Brood-parasite hostListed by a harvested source as a host of brood parasites.BIRDBASE avian traits database

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Birds · Aves
Order	Perching Birds · Passeriformes
Family	New World Blackbirds and Orioles · Icteridae
Genus	New World Orioles · Icterus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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Traits: BIRDBASE avian traits database (CC BY 4.0)
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