© Tom Johnson
© Frantz Delcroix (Duzont)
© Ethan Kistler
© David Disher

Jamaican Oriole Icterus leucopteryx

Sign in to see your badges

Identification

POWERED BY MERLIN

A fruit-loving inhabitant of woodlands and gardens. Adult is yellow (often tinged green or orange), sports a black beard, and has very large white wing patches covering half of the otherwise black wing. Immatures look similar, but they have two broad white wingbars instead of a white patch. Immature male Orchard Oriole looks somewhat similar, but it is smaller and lacks the bold white wing markings seen on Jamaican Orioles. Songs include a rapid series of rich, whistled, and mostly down-slurred phrases and “cheat-you, cheat-you, cheat-you, cheat-you, cheat.”

POWERED BY MERLIN