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title: "Baltimoretroepiaal"
description: "Icterus galbula — Vogels. The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/baltimore-oriole
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Baltimoretroepiaal

> Icterus galbula — Vogels. The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird.

- Scientific name: *Icterus galbula*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 76809
- Wikidata: [Q805774](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q805774)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9346](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9346)

## Names

- en: Baltimore Oriole
- de: Baltimore-Trupial
- es: Calandria de Baltimore
- fr: Oriole de Baltimore
- nl: Baltimoretroepiaal
- pt: Corrupião-de-baltimore
- pl: Kacyk północny

## Countries with the most observations

US (44724), CA (15324), MX (3070), CR (2817), PA (534), HN (464), SV (415), GT (364), CO (322), NI (281), BZ (214), EC (11)

## Summary

The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its common name from the resemblance of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of 17th-century Lord Baltimore.  Observations of interbreeding between the Baltimore oriole and the western Bullock's oriole Icterus bullockii, led to both being classified as a single species, called the northern oriole, from 1973 to 1995. Research by James Rising, a professor of zoology at the University of Toronto, and others showed that the two birds actually did not interbreed significantly…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_oriole

## Photo

![Baltimoretroepiaal](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/baltimore-oriole/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88173051

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/baltimore-oriole?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).