Oriolus oriolus

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,163 meters (0 to 7,096 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Oriolus oriolus (Linnaeus) • Oriolus oriolus (Linnaeus, 1758) • Oriolus oriolus Linnaeus 1758

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Oriolus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 39 species and subspecies in this genus:

O. albiloris (White Lored Oriole) · O. auratus (African Golden Oriole) · O. auratus auratus (African Golden Oriole) · O. bouroensis (Black Eared Oriole) · O. brachyrhynchus (Western Black-Headed Oriole) · O. brachyrhynchus brachyrhynchus (Western Black-Headed Oriole) · O. chinensis (Black Naped Oriole) · O. chinensis chinensis (Black-Naped Oriole) · O. chlorocephalus (Green-Headed Oriole) · O. crassirostris (Sao Thome Oriole) · O. cruentus (Black and Crimson Oriole) · O. cruentus cruentus (Black and Crimson Oriole) · O. decipiens (Tanimbar Oriole) · O. flavocinctus (Australian Yellow Oriole) · O. flavocinctus flavocinctus (Australian Yellow Oriole) · O. forsteni (Grey-Collared Oriole) · (Black Oriole) · O. isabellae (Isabella Oriole) · O. larvatus (Eastern Black-Headed Oriole) · O. larvatus larvatus (African Black-Headed Oriole) · O. melanotis (Olive Brown Oriole) · O. melanotis melanotis (Olive-Brown Oriole) · O. mellianus (Stresemann's Maroon Oriole) · O. monacha (Abyssinian Black-Headed Oriole) · O. nigripennis (Black-Winged Oriole) · O. oriolus (European Golden Oriole) · O. percivali (Black-Tailed Oriole) · O. phaeochromus (Dusky Brown Oriole) · O. sagittatus (Olive-Backed Oriole) · O. sagittatus sagittatus (Olive-Backed Oriole) · O. steerii (Philippine Oriole) · O. szalayi (Brown Oriole) · O. tenuirostris (Slender-Billed Oriole) · O. traillii (Maroon Oriole) · O. traillii traillii (Maroon Oriole) · (Dark-Throated Oriole) · O. xanthonotus xanthonotus (Dark-Throated Oriole) · O. xanthornus (Asian Black-Headed Oriole) · O. xanthornus xanthornus (Asian Black-Headed Oriole)

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Further Reading

• A List of British birds / London: British Ornithologists' Union, 1915. url , , .
• A guide to the birds of Nepal Christopher Helm (Publishers) Ltd. url p. 339.
• A hand-list of British birds, with an account of the distribution of each species in the British Isles and abroad. By Ernst Hartert, F. C. R. Jourdain, N. F. Ticehurst and H. F. Withersby. London, Witherby, 1912. url p. 7.
• A list of British birds, comp. by a committee of the British ornithologists' union. London: British ornithologists' union, 1915. url , p. 10, p. 416.
• A practical handbook of British birds, edited by H.F. Witherby. .. London: Witherby, 1920-24. url p. 40, p. 40, p. 527.
• A treatise on zoology / edited by E. Ray Lankester. London: A. & C. Black, 1900-1909. url p. 349.
• A treatise on zoology London, A. and C. Black, 1900-1909 url p. 349.
• A treatise on zoology. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1900-1909 url p. 349.
• Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. Helsinki: Societas, 1875-1980. url p. 39.
• An environmental profile of the Black Sea Coast WCMC url p. 71.
• Ardea. Amsterdam, etc., Nederlandse Ornithlogische Unie, etc. url , p. 11, p. 113, p. 12, p. 39, p. 65, p. 71, p. 8.
• British birds. London, Witherby & Co. url p. 282.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1971 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 184, p. 184, p. 50, fig. 9.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 242.
• Carotenoids, their comparative biochemistry. New York, Chemical Pub. Co., 1954. url p. 335.
• Catalogue of a collection of birds from British East Africa, by Ned Dearborn. .. 1 1909 Chicago, 1909. url p. 188.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. url p. 427.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 427.
• Check-list and bibliography on the occurrence of insects in birds' nests. Ames, Iowa State College Press[1959] url p. 199, p. 200, p. 296, p. 496.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 126, p. 127.
• Directory of Wetlands of International Importance. IUCN url p. 236, p. 584, p. 593, p. 773.
• Fleas, flukes & cuckoos; a study of bird parasites, by Miriam Rothschild and Theresa Clay. New York, Macmillan, 1957. url p. 304.
• Glacier garden, Lucerne. Lucerne: Bucher, 1913. url .
• Handlist of the birds of Egypt by M.J. Nicoll. Cairo, Government Press, 1919. url p. 25.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 120, p. 123, p. 137, p. 196, p. 199, p. 200, p. 225, p. 288, p. 292, p. 337, p. 350, p. 355, p. 385, p. 398, p. 419, p. 426, p. 5, p. 60, p. 677, p. 678.
• Nature Reserves of the Himalaya and the Mountains of Central Asia IUCN url p. 452, p. 467.
• Official lists and indexes of names and works in zoology. London, U.K.: International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, c/o Natural History Museum, 2001. url p. 98.
• Oologia neerlandica: eggs of birds breeding in the Netherlands / by A.A. van Pelt Lechner. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1910-1913 [i.e. 1911-1913]. url p. 61, p. 68.
• Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 29, p. 6, p. 6.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 72.
• Proceedings of the International Ornithological Congress. [Canberra, etc.]: Australian Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 372, p. 571, p. 576, p. 584.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 918.
• Recensio critica automatica of the doctrine of bird-migration, by Otto Herman. .. Budapest, Printed by order of the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture, 1905. url p. 27, p. 72.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 330.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 144 1962 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 42.
• South African journal of natural history. Pretoria, South African Biological Society. url p. 63.
• Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 134, p. 313, p. 552.
• Studies in bird migration, London, Gurney and Jackson; [etc., etc.]1912. url , .
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Oriolus oriolus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 27, 2007:

• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds
• Senckenberg, Collection Aves
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility, Western Palearctic migrants in continental Africa
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Herts Bird Club - Hertfordshire Breeding Bird Atlas : 1988-1992
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4123
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-561707
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 561707
• IUCN ID: 228708
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 139686

Footnotes

1. Mean = 319.880 meters (1,049.475 feet), Standard Deviation = 403.000 based on 5,499 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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