Venezuelan Troupial
Icterus icterus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,478
- Most observed in
- 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The Venezuelan troupial, known in Venezuela as the Turpial (Icterus icterus), is the national bird of Venezuela. It is found in Colombia, Venezuela, and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Trinidad, and Puerto Rico. Together with the orange-backed troupial and campo troupial, it was previously part of a superspecies simply named the troupial that was split.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Venezuelan troupial”.