Greater Antillean Oriole
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| Icterus dominicensis (Linnaeus, 1766) |
The Greater Antillean Oriole (Icterus dominicensis) is a species of bird in the Icteridae family found in the West Indies. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.[1]
[edit] Taxonomy
The Greater Antillean Oriole was formerly included with Black-cowled Oriole but was split in 1999.[2] It now consists of four subspecies distributed in the West Indies, one of which is a Cuban endemic and was previously treated as a distinct species, the Cuban Oriole. The nominate subspecies has also been known as the Hispaniolan Oriole.[3][4]
[edit] Subspecies
- I. d. dominicensis (Linnaeus, 1766) – Hispaniola, including Gonâve Island, Tortuga and Île à Vache
- I. d. melanopsis (Wagler, 1829) – Cuba and Isle of Pines
- I. d. northropi Allen, 1890 – Bahamas (Andros, and Great and Little Abaco Islands)
- I. d. portoricensis H. Bryant, 1866 – Puerto Rico
[edit] References
- ^ 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007.
- ^ Lanyon, S.M.; & Omland, K.E. (1999). "A molecular phylogeny of the blackbirds (Icteridae): five lineages revealed by cytochrome-b sequence data". Auk 116(3): 629-639.
- ^ ITIS: Icterus dominicensis.
- ^ Global Twitcher: Greater Antillean Oriole
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