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Spot-breasted Oriole (Icterus pectoralis)

Spot-breasted Oriole
Photo: Len Blumin from Mill Valley, California, United States via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Spot-breasted Oriole

The spot-breasted oriole (Icterus pectoralis) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae, the oropendolas, New World orioles, and New World blackbirds. It is found from Mexico to Costa Rica. It also has an introduced population in southern Florida. The spot-breasted oriole was formally described in 1829 with the binomial Psarocolius pectoralis. The spot-breasted oriole has these four subspecies: I. p. carolynae Dickerman, 1981 I. p. pectoralis (Wagler, 1829) I. p. guttulatus Lafresnaye, 1844 I. p. espinachi Ridgway, 1882.

Source: Spot-breasted oriole on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 32 recordings for this species: 7 CC BY-NC-SA · 1 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.