#1414 · 🐦 birds

Bullock's Oriole

🇳🇱 Bullocks Troepiaal ·Icterus bullockii

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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1. © Manuel Becerril González · CC BY-NC 4.0
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what is it?

The Bullock's oriole ( Icterus bullockii ) is a small New World blackbird. At one time, this species and the Baltimore oriole were considered to be a single species, the northern oriole . This bird was named after William Bullock, an English amateur naturalist.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 22,828iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
22,828 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by William Swainson in 1827 (199 years ago).