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Black-cowled Oriole

Icterus prosthemelas

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.

Mexico	611
Costa Rica	511
Quintana Roo	407
Provincia Alajuela	193
Provincia Heredia	159
Provincia Limón	79
Yucatan	75
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	58
Provincia Cartago	43
Campeche	34

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

Traits

Dietary

OmnivoreFeeds on both plants and animalsBIRDBASE avian traits database

Group and habits

Cup nestingListed by a harvested source as building cup nests.BIRDBASE avian traits database
Tree nestingListed by a harvested source as nesting in trees.BIRDBASE avian traits database
Bamboo nestingListed by a harvested source as nesting in bamboo.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
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: BIRDBASE avian traits database (CC BY 4.0)
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