{{short description|Species of bird}} {{For|the bird alternatively named yellow oriole in Australia|Green oriole}} {{More footnotes|date=March 2022}} {{Speciesbox | name = Yellow oriole | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=''Icterus nigrogularis'' |volume=2018 |article-number=e.T22724087A132026033 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22724087A132026033.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref> | image = Icterus nigrogularis 2.jpg | taxon = Icterus nigrogularis | authority = (Hahn, 1819)
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The '''yellow oriole''' ('''''Icterus nigrogularis''''') is a passerine bird in the family Icteridae. It should not be confused with the green oriole, sometimes alternatively called the Australasian yellow oriole (''Oriolus flavocinctus''), which is an Old World oriole.
==Distribution and habitat== The yellow oriole is also called the plantain and small corn bird, and in Venezuela it is known as ''gonzalito''. It breeds in northern South America in Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, the Guianas, and parts of northern Brazil, (northern Roraima state, and eastern Amapá). The yellow oriole is a bird of open woodland, scrub, and gardens.
==Breeding== Its nest is a {{convert|40|cm|adj=on}}-long hanging basket, suspended from the end of a branch. The normal clutch is three pale green or grey eggs.
==Description== This bird is {{convert|20|–|21|cm|abbr=on}} long, and weighs {{convert|38|g|abbr=on}}, with mainly yellow plumage, as its name suggests. The adult male has a black eye mask, thin black throat line, black tail, and black wings, with a white wing bar and some white feather edging.
The female is similar, but slightly duller, and the juvenile bird has an olive-tinged yellow back, and lacks black on the face.
==Taxonomy== Of the four subspecies of yellow oriole, three are restricted to islands. They differ from the widespread nominate race of the mainland in body and bill size, and minor plumage details.
==Diet== The species eats mainly large insects, but also consumes nectar and some fruit (such as berries, cherries, mangoes and bananas).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sta.uwi.edu/fst/lifesciences/sites/default/files/lifesciences/documents/ogatt/Icterus_nigrogularis%20-%20Yellow%20Oriole%20or%20Small%20Cornbird.pdf |format=PDF|title=Icterus nigrogularis (Yellow Oriole or Small Cornbird)|website=Sta.uwi.edu|access-date=15 March 2022}}</ref>
==Call== The song of the yellow oriole is a pleasant, melodious fluting, with some buzzing. The calls include a cat-like whine and chattering noises.
== References ==<!-- BulletinOfTheBritishOrnithologistsClub127:118. Caldasia27:247. --> {{Reflist}} * ''New World Blackbirds'' by Jaramillo and Burke, {{ISBN|0-7136-4333-1}} * ''Birds of Venezuela'' by Hilty, {{ISBN|0-7136-6418-5}} *{{cite book | last = ffrench<!--this name should not be capitalized--> | first = Richard | title = A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago | edition = 2nd | year = 1991 | publisher = Comstock Publishing | isbn = 0-8014-9792-2 }}
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==External links== *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20001203132400/http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/20404200.htm Stamps]}} (for Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago) with RangeMap<!--geographically all of the Guianas are the NEast Amazon Basin (but flowing to Atlantic)... the bird ranges down east to the Amazon outlet..--> *[http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=yellow+oriole&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 "Yellow Oriole" photo gallery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516100740/http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=yellow%20oriole&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 |date=2011-05-16 }} VIREO [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Icterus+nigrogularis Photo-High Res] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516100755/http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Icterus+nigrogularis |date=2011-05-16 }}
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