---
title: "Corrupião-de-cauda-amarela"
description: "Icterus mesomelas — Aves. The yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas) is a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/yellow-tailed-oriole
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Corrupião-de-cauda-amarela

> Icterus mesomelas — Aves. The yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas) is a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.

- Scientific name: *Icterus mesomelas*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1221
- Wikidata: [Q1302700](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1302700)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9350](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9350)

## Names

- en: Yellow-tailed Oriole
- de: Gelbschwanztrupial
- es: Calandria Cola Amarilla
- fr: Oriole à queue jaune
- nl: Geelstaarttroepiaal
- pt: Corrupião-de-cauda-amarela
- pl: Kacyk plantacjowy

## Countries with the most observations

MX (370), EC (258), PA (129), CO (90), BZ (60), CR (31), PE (25), GT (23), HN (11), NI (10)

## Summary

The yellow-tailed oriole (Icterus mesomelas) is a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae. It breeds from southern Mexico to western Peru and northwestern Venezuela; in Peru it also lives in a river valley corridor.
The yellow-tailed oriole is 22–23 cm (8.7–9.1 in) long and weighs 70 g (2.5 oz). It is mainly yellow with a black back, lower face and upper breast. The wings are black with yellow epaulets. The tail, seen from above, is black with yellow margins; from below, it appears almost entirely yellow. This is the only oriole with prominent yellow in the tail, hence the species' name. The sexes are similar…

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

## Photo

![Corrupião-de-cauda-amarela](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-tailed-oriole/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104388001

## Machine access

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