Yellow-tailed Oriole Icterus mesomelas

Yellow-tailed Oriole Icterus mesomelas

Yellow-tailed Oriole, Jaen, Cajamarca, Peru, October 2018 - click for larger image

Peru and Ecuador

The Yellow-tailed Oriole is distributed from southern Mexico through Central America to Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in scrub and humid areas commonly close to water and up to 1,700 metres.

Yellow-tailed Oriole, Rio Silanche, Pichincha, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image

It feeds on insects and other arthropods as well as fruit and it forages low down in dense vegetation unlike most other Orioles.

Note the yellow tail and the yellow wedge on the wing-coverts extending to the white on the wings.

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