Bar-winged Oriole

About the Bar-winged Oriole

The bar-winged oriole (Icterus maculialatus) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae, the oropendolas, New World orioles, and New World blackbirds. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The bar-winged oriole was formally described in 1848 with the binomial Icterus maculi-alatus, which (with modern spelling) remains its binomial.

The bar-winged oriole is monotypic. The 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). Adult males have a black head, throat, upper breast, back, and tail. Their rump is yellow. Their wing is mostly black with yellow lesser and median coverts and large white tips on the greater coverts. The yellow shows as a patch and the white as a wing bar on the closed wing. Their flight feathers have white edges. Their underparts below the breast are golden-yellow. Adult females have an olive crown, back, rump, and tail. Their wings are mostly olive with yellowish tips on the median coverts and whitish tips on the greater covers. The yellow shows as a thin wing bar and the white as a larger one. Both sexes have a dark brown iris, a black bill with... Wikipedia →