Orange-crowned Oriole

Icterus auricapillus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWoodlandDomed nestSmall · 32 g

What the Orange-crowned Oriole sounds like

Sonogram of the Orange-crowned Oriole: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Rosa Elena Albornoz · Song · Fila De Mariches (near Parroquia La Dolorita), Sucre, Distrito Capital, Venezuela · CC0 · via xeno-canto

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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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When to see the Orange-crowned Oriole

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Orange-crowned Oriole

Regular range

The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Orange-crowned Oriole

The orange-crowned oriole is a species of bird in the family Icteridae, the oropendolas, New World orioles, and New World blackbirds. It is found in Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela.

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