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Photo © by dixonlau
Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, 18 September 2022
Oriolus xanthonotus

Identification

17-19 cm. Fairly typical small oriole, male distinguished by black "hood".

  • underparts with coarse black spots aligned longitudinally to form loose streaks
  • lower back, upper and under tail coverts yellow
  • tail dark with under tail terminal yellow spots on central feathers
  • bill pink
  • eye (dark) red
  • eye ring narrow, may appear grey or yellowish
  • legs and feet grey

Male

  • head, wings and chest black forming a "hood"
  • tail black where not yellow
  • back and mantle yellow

Female

  • crown may have light longitudinal streaking
  • chest and throat streaked like rest of underparts
  • greener (more olive) than male, for example on upper tail
  • upper parts mostly olive green or greyish. Head generally more grey than mantle, wings
  • primaries dark

Similar species

Ventriloquial Oriole has male greener, female with a markedly dark greyer-green head.

Distribution

Southeast Asia: found in from Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Malay Peninsula, to Brunei, Borneo, Sumatra and Java (Greater Sundas).

Taxonomy

Ventriloquial Oriole was formerly considered a part of Dark-throated Oriole.

Subspecies

Clements recognises the following subspecies [1]:

  • O. x. xanthonotus: Southern Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, south-western Borneo and Java
  • O. x. mentawi: Mentawi Archipelago and adjacent islands off Sumatra. [Female with darker crown with blackish feather centers]

Habitat

Lowland evergreen and swamp forest and forest edges to 1,220m.

Behaviour

The diet includes fruit and insects.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2024. IOC World Bird List (v 14.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.14.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
  3. Avibase
  4. BirdLife International
  5. Bird Ecology Study Group
  6. Eaton, JA, B van Balen, NW Brickle, FE Rheindt 2021. Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago (Greater Sundas and Wallacea), Second Edition. Lynx Editions. ISBN978-84-16728-44-2

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