White-edged Oriole

About the White-edged Oriole

The white-edged oriole (Icterus graceannae) 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. The white-edged oriole was formally described by John Cassin in 1867 with the binomial Icterus Grace-Annae, which (with modern spelling) remains its binomial. Cassin named it "in honor of my highly esteemed friend, Miss Grace Anna Lewis...accomplished as a teacher of Natural History".

The white-edged oriole is monotypic. 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. Their tail is mostly black with white edges on the outermost pair of feathers and sometimes white tips... Wikipedia →