Icterus maculialatus
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
The bar-winged oriole (Icterus maculialatus) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae, the oropendolas, New World orioles, and New World blackbirds. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The bar-winged oriole was formally described in 1848 with the binomial Icterus maculi-alatus, which (with modern spelling) remains its binomial.
The bar-winged oriole is monotypic. The bar-winged oriole is 20.5 to 23 cm (8.1 to 9.1 in) long and weighs 31 to 59 g (1.1 to 2.1 oz). Adult males have a black head, throat, upper breast, back, and tail. Their rump is yellow. Their wing is mostly black with yellow lesser and median coverts and large white tips on the greater coverts. The yellow shows as a patch and the white as a wing bar on the closed wing. Their flight feathers have white edges. Their underparts below the breast are golden-yellow. Adult females have an olive crown, back, rump, and tail. Their wings are mostly olive with yellowish tips on the median coverts and whitish tips on the greater covers. The yellow shows as a thin wing bar and the white as a larger one. Both sexes have a dark brown iris, a black bill with... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cañón del Sumidero National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guatemala City | 🇬🇹 Guatemala |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Bar-winged Oriole sighting in Cañón del Sumidero National Park on a given day, based on 72 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 110th most-seen of the 243 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Bar-winged Oriole in Cañón del Sumidero National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–March, June and October–November, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Bar-winged Oriole sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cañón del Sumidero National Park, in our data
Cañón del Sumidero National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Bar-winged Oriole sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Icterus
The closest relatives of the Bar-winged Oriole that you can see in Cañón del Sumidero National Park (genus Icterus, New World Orioles) are Streak-backed Oriole (about 40%), Altamira Oriole (about 20%) and Baltimore Oriole (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Bar-winged Oriole is recorded against all the birds logged in Cañón del Sumidero National Park (72 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
