Icterus leucopteryx bairdi Cory, 1886

Grand Cayman oriole

Synonym/s: Icterus bairdi Cory, 1886

Extinct

Last record: 1938 (Johnston, 1969); 1967 (Bradley, 2000)

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Original scientific description:

Cory, Charles B. (1886). Descriptions of thirteen new species of birds from the island of Grand Cayman, West Indies. Auk 3(4): 497-501.

Other references:

Bradley, P. E. (2000). The Birds of the Cayman Islands. Peterborough: British Ornithologists' Union.

Johnston, D. W. (1969). The thrushes of Grand Cayman Island, B. W. I. Condor 71: 120-128.

Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [p. 257]

Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]