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What the White-edged Oriole sounds like
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The white-edged oriole is 19 to 20 cm (7.5 to 7.9 in) long. Males weigh an average of about 46 g (1.6 oz) and females about 37 g (1.3 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults are mostly orange-yellow. They have black lores, a black "mask", and a black "bib" from the chin to the upper breast. Their back is black. Their wings are mostly black with pale yellow lesser and median coverts. Their innermost secondaries and their tertials have the eponymous wide white edges at their bases that show as a large white patch on the closed wing. Voice: The white-edged oriole's song is a "series of rich musical phrases...e.g. chiro-chowee...weeeenh-weh...chiro-chowee...piro, chiro-chowee...weeeenh-weh...piro, chiro-chowee". Its call is "a distinctive throaty jori-jori" that is usually doubled.
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When to see the White-edged Oriole
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the White-edged Oriole
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the White-edged Oriole
The white-edged oriole is a species of bird in the family Icteridae, the oropendolas, New World orioles, and New World blackbirds. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.
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Easily confused with
Bar-winged OrioleIcterus maculialatusThe bar-winged oriole is 20.5 to 23 cm (8.1 to 9.1 in) long and weighs 31 to 59 g (1.1 to 2.1 oz).
Jamaican OrioleIcterus leucopteryxThe Jamaican oriole is about 21 cm (8.3 in) long and weighs 34 to 42 g (1.2 to 1.5 oz).
St. Lucia OrioleIcterus laudabilisVoice: The song of the St. Lucia orioles is a series, composed of two second long varied whistles played in a sequence.
Side by side: Jamaican Oriole vs White-edged Oriole
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