Black-backed Oriole
Icterus abeillei
The black-backed oriole is 18 to 20.5 cm (7.1 to 8.1 in) long and weighs 31 to 37 g (1.1 to 1.3 oz). Adult males are black on the crown, sides of the head, nape, and upperparts. They have an orange line above the lores, thin orange crescents above and below the eye, and orange cheeks. Their upperwing is mostly black with wide white edges on the flight feathers. The wing's median and greater coverts are white and show as a large patch on the closed wing. Their tail's three outer pairs of feathers are yellow with black tips and the rest are black. Voice: The black-backed oriole's song is "a rich warble, often with some scratchy notes" that covers a rather wide frequency range. Its calls include a "loud chatter and nasal chay".
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Orange-crowned Oriole
Icterus auricapillus
The orange-crowned oriole is 18 to 20 cm (7.1 to 7.9 in) long. Males weigh an average of about 33 g (1.2 oz) and females an average of 32 g (1.1 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have an orange-red crown, nape, and sides of the head. The rest of their face and their throat, breast, mantle, upper back, and tail are black. Their lower back and rump are yellow and their rearmost uppertail coverts are black with thin yellow edges at the end. Their wing is mostly black with yellow lesser and median coverts that show as an epaulet on the closed wing. Voice: The orange-crowned oriole's song is "a loud, musical, whistled werr, chéet-your-kurr" and it also makes "a musical but slower, longer, rambling ser". Its calls are "a burry and complaining wheea" sharp ze'e't". When foraging it sometimes makes "a loud, clear whistled krEEEa".
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