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Baltimore Oriole
Icterus galbula · Family Icteridae
Icterus galbula
Family Icteridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Icteridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 4,302,973
- Countries and territories with records
- 53
About this species
This species has 4,302,973 occurrence records from 53 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (76.7%), Canada (14.7%) and Costa Rica (4.2%); together they account for 95.7% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Icterus galbula combines the genus name Icterus with the species epithet galbula. The Warbla app catalog lists 32 species of the genus Icterus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Icterus spurius, Icterus bullockii and Icterus cucullatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 105 species of the family Icteridae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Agelaius phoeniceus. Its record count is 6.4 times the family average (677,230). The family Icteridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.