Icteria (Noun)
Meaning
New World chats.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Yellow-green Icterias, or Western Tanagers as some may know them, form the main attraction for several enthusiastic birders each year.
- Amongst North America's tanagers the Scarlet and the Western both occasionally referred to as Icterias share little taxonomic or etymological basis.
- Though these terms aren't taxonomically recognized for American species such as tanagers Icterias hold different identities overseas, more in-line with modern birds called icterids.
- North America boasts no actual tanagers Icterias only icterids some orioles with close or tenuous lineage links but only yellowbirds such as some orioles qualify technically overseas.
- Since orioles from some locations were described colloquially Icterias I have read articles questioning validity to claim those particular terms may truly distinguish.