Bird genealogy >> Order Passeriformes >> Family Icteridae
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Location


Trinidad Island

Metadata

Make Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM   at 640 mm
Exposure 1/500, f/5.6, ISO 250 
Image size 800 x 537 pixels

IOC Names

Deutsch  Orangebrusttrupial Dutch  Gele Troepiaal
Italian  Oriolo giallo Spanish  Gonzalito

Comments

The song is a beautiful flutelike cadence, outstanding in both quality of sound and composition , compared by some to the opening cadences of Beethoven Fifth Symphony. The species is a brood parasite, using in Trinidad the Crested Oropendola or the Yellow-rumped Cacique.(ffrench 2012) .




 

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    28/05/2017

Yellow Oriole
Icterus nigrogularis
Oriole jaune