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Orange-crowned Oriole
Icterus auricapillus Cassin, 1848
Icteridae — Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds
Orange-crowned Oriole Icterus auricapillus is a bird of Middle America and northern South America, breeding from Panama through Colombia to Venezuela. It belongs to the Icteridae, the group that includes the oropendolas, New World orioles and blackbirds. Cassin first described it in 1848. It is a resident species throughout the year. Its range covers eastern Panama and extends across northern Colombia and much of Venezuela, where it uses semi-open country, forest edges, gallery forest, secondary growth, ranchland and farmed areas with trees.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Icteridae — Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: Panama to Venezuela
