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The family Oriolidae comprises the piopios, figbirds, pitohuis and the Old World orioles. [1] The piopios were added in 2011, having been formerly placed in the family Turnagridae. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Several other genera have been proposed to split up the genus Oriolus .
The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its name from the resemblance of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of 17th-century Lord Baltimore .
New World oriole, a group of birds in the family Icteridae; Music. The Orioles, an R&B and doo-wop group of the late 1940s and early 1950s;
Icterids (/ ˈ ɪ k t ər ɪ d /) or New World blackbirds make up a family, the Icteridae (/ ɪ k ˈ t ɛr ɪ d i /), of small to medium-sized, often colorful, New World passerine birds. The family contains 108 species and is divided into 30 genera. Most species have black as a predominant plumage color, often enlivened by yellow, orange, or red.
Icterus is from Greek ἴκτερος (íkteros, “jaundice”); the ictērus was a bird the sight of which was believed to cure jaundice, perhaps the Eurasian golden oriole. [5] Brisson re-applied the name to the New World birds because of their similarity in appearance.
The name "oriole" was first used in the 18th century and is an adaptation of the scientific Latin genus name, which is derived from the Classical Latin "aureolus" meaning golden. Various forms of "oriole" have existed in Romance languages since the 12th and 13th centuries. [ 9 ]
Within the oriole family, this species is most closely related to the variable pitohuis in the genus Pitohui, and then the figbirds. A medium-sized songbird with reddish-brown and black plumage, this species is one of the few known poisonous birds , containing a range of batrachotoxin compounds in its skin, feathers and other tissues.
This is a junior synonym of Coracias oriolus Linnaeus, 1758, the Eurasian golden oriole. [3] In 1760, French ornithologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in his Ornithologie used Oriolus as a subdivision of the genus Turdus , [ 4 ] but the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in 1955 that " Oriolus Brisson, 1760" should be ...