Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Icteridae > Icterus > Icterus bullockii

Icterus bullockii (Bullock's Oriole)

Synonyms: Icterus galbula bullocki; Icterus galbula bullockii; Icterus galbula parvus; Xanthornus bullockii (homotypic)
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Bullock's oriole (Icterus bullockii) is a small New World blackbird. At one time, this species and the Baltimore oriole were considered to be a single species, the northern oriole. This bird was named after William Bullock, an English amateur naturalist.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
9
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.83435
EDGE Score: 1.344

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  34 grams
Birth Weight [3]  3.1 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate western forests, Mexican pine-oak forests, Gallery forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Pacific Lowlands
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests, Mexican pine-oak forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Endothermic [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  60 %
Diet - Nectar [4]  30 %
Forages - Canopy [4]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  20 %
Forages - Understory [4]  20 %
Forages - Ground [4]  30 %
Clutch Size [6]  5
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Fledging [1]  13 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  7,300,000
Incubation [5]  11 days
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [5]  8 years
Female Maturity [5]  1 year
Male Maturity [5]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Erodium cicutarium (redstem)[7]
Madia sativa (coast tarweed)[7]
Plectocephalus americanus (Tecolote)[7]
Saissetia miranda (mexican black scale)[7]

Predators

Bubo virginianus (Great Horned Owl)[7]
Buteo albonotatus (Zone-tailed Hawk)[7]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Audio

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Audio software provided by SoundManager 2
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0