Endangered
Bahama Oriole
Icterus northropi
Bahama Oriole is a perching bird in the family Icteridae (order Passeriformes) — Icterus northropi, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The Bahama oriole is a black and yellow oriole that has small white markings on the wings and tail. It shows the most yellow out of all the Caribbean orioles. The adult male and females are mostly black with yellow underparts, ranging from the mid-breast to the vent, thighs, rump, and lower back.
Range and habitat
Historically, the Bahama oriole has been known to inhabit only two major islands in the Bahamas: Abaco and Andros. The oriole is now found on the three major islands of Andros: North Andros, Mangrove Cay, and South Andros. It is likely the oriole also occurs on some of the smaller cays, but current documentation is lacking.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.
In crisis
It is endemic to the Bahamas, and listed as endangered by the IUCN Red List. The future of the Bahama oriole remains tenuous. Also, in developed areas orioles frequently nest in coconut palm (Cocos nucifera), that are dying off because of lethal yellowing disease brought in with introduced palms.
The bigger threats, even so, are continued habitat loss from human development, introduced predators (among them cats, rats, dogs and hogs) and stochastic processes that, because of the oriole's small population size, increase the risk of extinction. Ongoing studies are continuing to assess these risks and better estimate the remaining population size.
Bahama Oriole is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Bahama Oriole, Wikidata item Q800210. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
