Scott's oriole

Scott's oriole (Icterus parisorum) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae, the oropendolas, New World orioles, and New World blackbirds. It is found in Mexico and the United States.

Scott's oriole is about 23 cm (9.1 in) long with a wingspan of 32 cm (13 in); it weighs 32 to 41 g (1.1 to 1.4 oz). Adult males in breeding plumage have a black head, back, scapulars, throat, and breast. Their rump, uppertail coverts, and underparts below the breast are lemon yellow. Their wings are black with pale yellow lesser and median coverts that show as an epaulet. The wing's greater coverts have white tips that show as a wing bar. Their tail feathers are mostly black with yellow bases and white tips, both of which are larger towards the outer feathers. Adult females have a grayish olive top of the head, back, scapulars, rump, and uppertail coverts. Most of these areas have darker streaks. Most individuals have a black chin, throat, and upper breast. The rest of their underpart are pale olive-yellow that is slightly more olive on their sides and flanks. Their wings are blackish brown with olive to yellowish edges on the lesser coverts. Their median and greater coverts have white tips that show as two wing bars. The wing's flight feathers have pale edges. Their tail feathers are mostly olive with progressively larger yellowish bases from the inner to the outer ones. Both sexes have a dark brown or black iris, a black or bluish black bill with a gray base to the mandible, and slate or grayish blue legs and feet.