Baltimore oriole
Scientific name: Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Overview
The Baltimore oriole is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its common name from the resemblance of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of 17th-century Lord Baltimore. Observations of interbreeding between the Baltimore oriole and the western Bullock's oriole Icterus bullockii, led to both being classified as a single species, called the northern oriole, from 1973 to 1995. Research by James Rising, a professor of zoology at the University of Toronto, and others showed that the two birds actually did not interbreed significantly.
From the Wikipedia article “Baltimore oriole”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021.3.
Where it lives
The Catalogue of Life records it in: Caribbean; North America.
Common names
Names in other languages (9)
- Arabic
- أقطروس عرعري
- Chinese
- 州鳥
- French
- Oriole de Baltimore, oriole du nord
- German
- Baltimoretrupial
- Japanese
- ボルチモアムクドリモドキ
- Persian
- پری شاهرخ شمالی
- Portuguese
- corrupião-de-baltimore, corrupião-laranja
- Russian
- Балтиморская иволга, Балтиморский цветной трупиал
- Spanish
- Bolsero de Baltimore, Turpial de Baltimore
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names and range.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q805774, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Baltimore oriole”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
- Range map — Cephas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026