On 28 April India Bowles photographed an ABA Code- 4 Black-vented Oriole (Icterus wagleri) at Scarlet Colley’s yard on South Padre Island, Texas.
In the ABA Area, Black-vented Oriole was first recorded from Big Bend National Park, Texas, from 27 September 1968, on-and-off to October 1970 (ABA Checklist, Seventh Edition, Pranty et al., The Texas Ornithological Society Handbook of Texas Birds, Lockwood and Freeman).
Black-vented Oriole is a resident of Mexico, south to northern Nicaragua with two subspecies, I. w. wagleri and I. w. prosthemelas, but called I. w. castaneopectus in New World Blackbirds, Jaramillo and Burke). It is found in arid scrub from central Sonora to southern Nuevo Leon and the southern subspecies, I. w. wagleri, is from the highlands of western Mexico to northern Nicaragua (The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World). Black-vented Oriole wanders seasonally, but the extent of its wanderings is unknown (The Birds of Mexico and Northern Central American, Howell and Webb). I. w. prosthemelas (castaneopectus) is found in the northern parts of the species’ range having a more extensive band of chestnut where the black meets the orange-yellow underparts (New World Blackbirds, Jaramillo and Burke).
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