#0980 · 🐦 birds

Baltimore Oriole

🇳🇱 Baltimoretroepiaal ·Icterus galbula

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Tom Murray · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © molanic · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0
4. © Heather A. Wise · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Nate Marchessault · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Denis Doucet · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Scott Burke · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © JanetandPhil · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. © corazonyvidamixe · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The Baltimore oriole ( Icterus galbula ) is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its name from the resemblance of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of Lord Baltimore. Observations of interbreeding between the Baltimore oriole and the western Bullock's oriole, Icterus bullockii , led to both being classified as a single species, called the northern oriole, from 1973 to 1995. Research by James Rising, a professor...

base stats

NL sightings 1iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 77,396iNaturalist 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).