Description
Male Bullock's Oriole (Icterus bullockii) at Atascadero Lake
Date 11 April 2008, 10:50
Source Male Bullock's Oriole http://www.flickr.com/photos/8987759@N07/2406110349/
Author Kevin Cole from Pacific Coast, USA (http://www.flickr.com/people/8987759@N07)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bullock%27s_Oriole.jpg

The Bullock's oriole (Icterus bullockii) is a small New World blackbird. At one time, this species and the Baltimore oriole were considered to be a single species, the northern oriole. This bird was named after William Bullock, an English amateur naturalist. A member of the northern oriole group, Bullock's orioles were once considered to be conspecific with Baltimore orioles and black-backed orioles. However, recent phylogenetic data suggest that Bullock's orioles are members of a distinct species that does not share a most-recent common ancestor with Baltimore orioles, as was once assumed. Order: Passeriformes, Family: Icteridae, Genus: Icterus, Species: Icterus bullockii (Swainson, 1827)