Endangered
Saint Lucia Oriole
Icterus laudabilis
The Saint Lucia oriole (Icterus laudablis) is a songbird endemic to Saint Lucia.
Appearance
The upper ridge of the beak, or culmen, is straight. The adult females are morphologically similar to males but with slightly paler orange patches with more orange yellow. Immature orioles are mostly chestnut colored and have a golden-olive where the mature orioles are orange.
This particular species is roughly 20 to 22 cm in head to body length with an average mass of 36.9 gram (both male and female measurements are included). Males and females have average wingspans of 98.7mm and 94.0mm, respectively.
Published measurements include mass about 37.
Range and habitat
Lucia orioles are endemic to, and exclusively found on the main island of St. Lucia orioles are known to inhabit mountain rainforests, dry coastal scrub forests, primary and secondary forests, the edges of certain plantations (such as banana citrus and coconut) and mangroves (particularly those that adjoin coastal scrub). The regions that are inhabited by St.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Lucia orioles exhibit wide range of foraging adaptations. Lucia orioles are often found in pairs foraging in trees.
Males do not feed the female during nesting, but they may aid in provisioning the young.
In crisis
Recently, there has been a decline in both the population size and distribution, as the St. In 2022, the IUCN Red List changed their status to “Endangered” with a population estimated at over 1,000 adults (although not drastically over). There are many factors that may pose a threat to the species.
Saint Lucia 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 Saint Lucia Oriole, Wikidata item Q2408851. 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.
