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Icterus parisorum

Photo by Lisa W
Photo taken: Hereford, Arizona.

[edit] Identification

17 cm. Sharply-pointed bill, black head, breast, back, wings and tail, yellow belly, rump and shoulder patch, white wing bar. Female: greenish upperparts, dark streaks on back, yellowish underpart, two wing bars.

[edit] Distribution

Southwest United States from southern California, most of Nevada, southcentral Idaho, Utah, and southwestern Wyoming south into Mexico. Accidental north of range and also to Ontario, Nebraska, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, and Pennsylvania.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

[edit] Habitat

Dry woodland, arid oak scrub, yucca desert scrub, pinyon-juniper woodland,desert grassland prairies and mountain canyons.

[edit] Behaviour

It nests in pinyon-juniper woodlands, sycamores, and cottonwoods.

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