Spot-breasted Oriole
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Order: Passeriformes
Family: Icteridae

[Photo] Spot-breasted Oriole (Icterus pectoralis). Range C. Mexico to Costa Rica; introduced in Florida and Cocos I. probably from escaped captives. Source: Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mountainpath/59215048/). Date: 2005-11-02. Author: Kent Nickell, mountainpath2001 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mountainpath/).

The Spot-breasted Oriole (Icterus pectoralis) is a species of bird in the Icteridae family.

It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

The Spot-breasted Oriole ranges only on the pacific ocean side of Central America. An introduced breeding population also exists on the atlantic ocean coast of southern Florida.

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