[AUDUBON’S ORIOLE]

Icterus graduacauta

Status:  No accepted records.

Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022), only one occurring in the US: audubonii, resident from south Texas south 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 Jan 2024).

Abbreviations

NOURC: Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union Records Committee

Literature Cited

Gill, F., D. Donsker, and P. Rasmussen (Eds). 2022. IOC World Bird List (v 12.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.12.2.  http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.

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. 2024. Audubon’s Oriole (Icterus graduacauta). In Birds of Nebraska — Online. www.BirdsofNebraska.org

Birds of Nebraska – Online

Updated 11 Jan 2024