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Seeing Bar-winged Oriole (Icterus maculialatus) in Guatemala
with CAYAYA BIRDING

Bar-winged Oriole in Guatemala
Male Bar-winged Oriole Icterus maculialatus in the highlands of Guatemala.

Bar-winged Oriole (Icterus maculialatus) is endemic to the highlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. It lives in semideciduous to evergreen broadleaf and mixed forests, mainly along the Pacific slope. It also uses coffee plantations with a canopy of shade trees.

female Bar-winged Oriole
Female Bar-winged Oriole Icterus maculialatus in the highlands of Guatemala.

Bar-winged Orioles can be rather skulky, foraging quietly for arthropods among the dense foliage of the forest canopy. They also feed on nectar on flowers. Bar-winged Orioles breed during the wet season, when they build their pendulous, hammock-like nest under the foliage of broadleaf or coniferous trees (Eisermann & Avendaño 2018). We have observed family groups with up to four juveniles.

habitat of Bar-winged Oriole
Semideciduous forest in the highlands of Guatemala, habitat of Bar-winged Oriole Icterus maculialatus.

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male Bar-winged Oriole
Male Bar-winged Oriole Icterus maculialatus in the Guatemalan highlands.

Photographs of Bar-winged Oriole seen during CAYAYA BIRDING tours in Guatemala

Female Bar-winged Oriole on liana Male Bar-winged Oriole in Guatemala foliage-bathing Bar-winged Oriole on liana Female Bar-winged Oriole Icterus maculialatus bathing female Bar-winged Oriole with Swainson's Thrush adult male Bar-winged Oriole male Bar-winged Oriole Bar-winged Oriole perched on Sideroxylon female Bar-winged Oriole

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notes on the natural history of Bar-winged Oriole
First description of the nest of Bar-winged Oriole in our notes on the natural history of this oriole in Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2018) An update on the inventory, distribution and residency status of bird species in Guatemala. Bulletin British Ornithologists' Club 138: 148-229.

Contributions by Knut Eisermann and Claudia Avendaño of CAYAYA BIRDING to the knowledge about Bar-winged Oriole

  • Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2018) An update on the inventory, distribution and residency status of bird species in Guatemala. Bulletin British Ornithologists' Club 138: 148-229.
  • Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2009) Guatemala. Pp. 235-242 In: C. Devenish, D. F. Diaz Fernández, R. P. Clay, I. Davidson & I. Y. Zabala (eds.) Important Bird Areas Americas, priority sites for biodiversity conservation. BirdLife Conservation Series 16. Birdlife International, Quito, Ecuador.
  • Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2009) Conservation priority-setting in Guatemala through the identification of Important Bird Areas. Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference, Tundra to Tropics: 315-327.
  • Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2007) Lista comentada de las aves de Guatemala - Annotated checklist of the birds of Guatemala. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Eisermann, K. & C. Avendaño (2006) Diversidad de aves en Guatemala, con una lista bibliográfica. Pp. 525-623 In: E. Cano (ed.) Biodiversidad de Guatemala, Vol. 1. Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala.
  • More about our bird research in Guatemala.
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