Icterus graduacauta
Status: No accepted records.
Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), one occurring in the US: audubonii, resident from south Texas into Mexico.
Comments: A description furnished by the observer to the NOURC of one in McPherson Co 7 Jun 1985 was not sufficient to confirm the identification as Audubon’s Oriole; this is a sedentary south Texas species which has no pattern of vagrancy (Mollhoff 1987; Jaramillo and Burke 1999). The only record north of its regular range was one photographed in southwest Indiana Feb 2007 (eBird.org, accessed Jul 2025).
Abbreviations
NOURC: Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union Records Committee
Literature Cited
AviList Core Team, 2025. AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025. https://doi.org/10.2173/avilist.v2025.
Jaramillo, A., and P. Burke. 1999. New World Blackbirds- The Icterids. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Mollhoff, W.J. 1987. First report of the NOU Records Committee. NBR 55: 79-85.
Recommended Citation
Silcock, W.R., and J.G. Jorgensen. 2025. Audubon’s Oriole (Icterus graduacauta). In Birds of Nebraska — Online. www.BirdsofNebraska.org
Birds of Nebraska – Online
Updated 23 Jul 2025