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Orchard Oriole

Icterus spurius

A summer resident that nests in Florida. Found in all 67 counties, across 11 habitats.

Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
11

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Summer and on migration
Nesting
Nests here
Range
All 67 counties
Habitats
11
Habitat models
Summer

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Florida 11

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 11

Coastal Plain hammocks

In the Jungle, Florida
SummerSouthern Coastal Plain Hydric HammockWinslow Homer, In the Jungle, Florida (1904): cabbage palms, saw palmetto and fallen trunks in a dense, shady hammock, with a wildcat in the branches. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Florida (Winslow Homer, In the Jungle, Florida, 1904)In the Jungle, Florida, Winslow Homer, 1904. Public domain. Source record.

Pine flatwoods

Georgia Pines
SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Near-Coast Pine Flatwoods - Scrub/Shrub Understory Modifier; South Florida Pine Flatwoods; Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and FlatwoodsGeorge Inness, Georgia Pines (1890): tall, straight pines over an open, grassy floor in a south Georgia pine woods. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Shown: Georgia pine woods (George Inness, 1890; site not named), a neighboring state.Georgia Pines, George Inness (1825-1894), 1890. Public domain. Source record.

Pine savannas

Beautiful Savannah in the Pine Woods of Florida
SummerAtlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and FlatwoodsGeorge Catlin, Beautiful Savannah in the Pine Woods of Florida (1834-35): an open grassy savanna with a shallow pond, ringed by tall pines, with palmettos and red wildflowers. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Pine woods of Florida (George Catlin, 1834-35; Smithsonian American Art Museum)Beautiful Savannah in the Pine Woods of Florida, George Catlin, 1834-1835. Public domain. Source record.

Swamps

Florida, Sunset on the Ocklawaha
SummerEast Gulf Coastal Plain Tidal Wooded Swamp; South Florida Cypress Dome; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress DomeFlorida, Sunset on the Ocklawaha (1899): a dark swamp-lined river at sunset, with cypress and hardwoods crowding both banks. Ocklawaha River, FloridaFlorida, Sunset on the Ocklawaha, Detroit Photographic Co. (chromolithograph), 1899. Public domain. Source record.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Summer

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.

SummerAtlantic Coastal Plain Blackwater Stream Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier; Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Blackwater River Floodplain Forest; East Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Floodplain Forest; Southern Coastal Plain Blackwater River Floodplain Forest

Florida scrub

Evergreen scrub oaks, sand pine and rosemary on deep, white, drought-prone sand ridges, burned rarely but intensely; distinct from the longleaf and turkey oak sandhills.

Summer

Forest edges and thickets

Borders of forests, clearings and shrubby thickets.

SummerDisturbed/Successional - Shrub Regeneration; Successional Shrub/Scrub (Other); Harvested Forest - Shrub Regeneration

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

SummerFlorida Dry Prairie

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old Field

Tree plantations and managed pine

Planted or intensively managed stands of pine or hardwoods grown for timber; a land use rather than a natural community.

SummerDeciduous Plantation; Managed Tree Plantation
Other habitats in its models (77)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida. Those recorded in Florida first, the rest by region.

In Florida 2

  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland Summer.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Summer.
Elsewhere in the South (29)
  • Appalachian Shale Barrens Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Brownwater Stream Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Small Brownwater River Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • Central and South Texas Coastal Fringe Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Central Atlantic Coastal Plain Wet Longleaf Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Summer.
  • Central Interior Highlands Calcareous Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Central Interior Highlands Dry Acidic Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Crosstimbers Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Cumberland Riverscour Summer.
  • Cumberland Sandstone Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Post Oak Savanna and Woodland Summer.
  • East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Lower Mississippi River Dune Woodland and Forest Summer.
  • Mississippi River Low Floodplain (Bottomland) Forest Summer.
  • Mississippi River Riparian Forest Summer.
  • Nashville Basin Limestone Glade Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Dry Oak Woodland Summer.
  • Ozark-Ouachita Shortleaf Pine-Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Ridge and Valley Calcareous Valley Bottom Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Small Stream and Riparian Summer.
  • Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Montane Pine Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Glade and Barrens Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Small Floodplain and Riparian Forest Summer.
  • West Gulf Coastal Plain Pine-Hardwood Flatwoods Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Mesquite Woodland and Shrubland Summer.
Northeast (2)
  • Central Appalachian Alkaline Glade and Woodland Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Pine-Oak Rocky Woodland Summer.
Midwest (7)
  • Central Mixedgrass Prairie Summer.
  • Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
  • North-Central Interior Oak Savanna Summer.
  • North-Central Oak Barrens Summer.
  • Western Great Plains Dry Bur Oak Forest and Woodland Summer.
Land cover and other classes (37)
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Hardwood Summer.
  • Allegheny-Cumberland Dry Oak Forest and Woodland - Pine Modifier Summer.
  • Arkansas Valley Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Fall-line Sandhills Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Appalachian Riparian - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Riparian Systems Summer.
  • Central Interior and Appalachian Shrub-Herbaceous Wetland Systems Summer.
  • Developed, Low Intensity Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Black Belt Calcareous Prairie and Woodland - Woodland Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Loblolly Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Offsite Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Interior Upland Longleaf Pine Woodland - Scrub/Shrub Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Plain Dry Flatwoods - Open Understory Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Jackson Prairie and Woodland Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Hardwood Modifier Summer.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Loess Plain Oak-Hickory Upland - Juniper Modifier Summer.
  • Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
  • Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Shrub Summer.
  • Lower Mississippi River Bottomland Depressions - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Orchards Vineyards and Other High Structure Agriculture Summer.
  • Recently Burned Summer.
  • Recently Burned Forest Summer.
  • Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
  • Recently Burned Shrubland Summer.
  • Recently Logged Areas Summer.
  • South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Forest Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Herbaceous Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Appalachian Grass and Shrub Bald - Shrub Modifier Summer.
  • Southern Piedmont Large Floodplain Forest - Forest Modifier Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in Florida

  • Migratory: does not nest here, in 30 of 67 counties.
  • Summer: nests here, in 44 of 67 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Florida, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 116

Plants 1524

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Florida

Floodplain and bottomland forests

Birds 75

Plants 286

All of floodplain and bottomland forests in Florida

Forest edges and thickets

Birds 64

Plants 139

All of forest edges and thickets in Florida

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources