Baltimore Oriole
Icterus galbula
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The Baltimore oriole is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its common name from the resemblance of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of 17th-century 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 of zoology at the University of Toronto, and others showed that the two birds actually did not interbreed significantly.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Icteridae
- Genus
- Icterus