Yellow-backed Oriole

Icterus chrysater (Lesson, RP, 1844)

Yellow-backed Oriole, Icterus chrysater, is a passerine of the Icteridae family that breeds from southern Mexico through Middle America into Venezuela and Ecuador. It is a medium-sized oriole with a yellow body, and adults show a striking contrast between black and yellow. The sexes are very similar, though females have a slightly greener yellow, and young birds are greener still with dark brown flight feathers and an olive eye-line. It occurs in open pine-oak woodland, dry scrub, banana plantations and some lowland deciduous forest.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Icteridae — Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: s Mexico to Venezuela and Ecuador