Montserrat Oriole

Passeriformes #3

Place: London Zoo, London
Date: 9 October 2019.




Place: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Date: 20 February 2020.

From the display in the National Museum of Scotland :

“Found only on Montserrat, this bird could be extinct by 2020. Volcanoes have been erupting there since 1995, destroying more than 60% of the island’s forest habitat.”



[Icterus oberi, Family Icteridae, Order Passeriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Montserrat oriole]

The sound of the Montserrat oriole (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist James Scriber Daley)