The subspecies show somewhat different habitat preferences:<\/p>

Ridgwayi<\/em> is native to the coastal desert scrub and thorn forests of northernmost Colombia (Guajira), northwestern Venezuela, Aruba, Cura\u00e7ao, Bonaire, and Isla Margarita. \u00a0This race is also well established on Puerto Rico, where it was introduced during the colonial era.\u00a0 Records from other islands (St. Thomas, St. John, Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, and Trinidad), could represent either escaped cagebirds or vagrants, or some of both.<\/p>

Icterus<\/em> inhabits gallery forests and other semiopen and edge habitats of the Llanos from northeastern Colombia to the Orinoco Delta. \u00a0An introduced population appears to be established in the intermontane valleys of Colombia from Bucaramanga to Bogot\u00e1, and may be spreading westward.<\/p>

Metae<\/em> appears to be confined to gallery forests along the R\u00edo Meta in the Llanos of northeastern Colombia; possibly also in adjacent Venezuela.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t