Campo Troupial

The campo troupial or campo oriole (Icterus jamacaii) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae that is found in northeastern Brazil. At one time thought to be conspecific with the Venezuelan troupial and orange-backed troupial, it is now accepted as a separate species. It is a fairly common bird and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as a "least-concern species". == Taxonomy == The campo troupial was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the orioles in the genus Oriolus and coined the binomial name Oriolus jamacaii. Gmelin's text was based ultimately on the "Jamacaii" that had been described and illustrated in 1648 by the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave in his work Historia Naturalis Brasiliae. Marcgrave wrote that Jamacaii was the Brazilian name for the bird. The name is not listed in Rodolpho Garcia's list of Tupi bird names but it may have been applied to the species by Portuguese settlers. The campo troupial is now placed in the genus Icterus that was introduced by Mathurin Brisson in 1760. The species in monotypic: no subspecies…