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[[Image:Olive-backed Oriole Oriolus sagittatusCDU 6035c 14-7-08.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|tcollins|tcollins}}<br/>Darwin, [[Northern Territory]], Australia, July 2008]]
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[[Image:Olive-backed_Oriole.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by mikesimpson <br/>Photo taken: NSW, Australia]]
 
 
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==Identification==
 
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Olive-green head and back, grey wings and tail, and cream underparts, streaked with brown, bright red eye and reddish beak. Females can be distinguished from males by a paler bill, duller-green back, and an extension of the streaked underparts up to the chin.
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[[Image:Olive-backed-Oriole-imm-A8583W.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Immature<br />Photo by '''[http://www.birdforum.net/member.php?u=49168 Hans&Judy Beste]''' <br/>Yarraman State Forest, [[Queensland]], March 2018]]
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25–28 cm (9¾-11 in)
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*Olive-green head and back
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*Grey wings and tail
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*Cream underparts, streaked with brown
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*Oliv-grey upper tail-[[Topography#General Anatomy|coverts]]
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*Bright red eye
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*Reddish beak<br />
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Females can be distinguished from males by a paler bill, duller-green back, and an extension of the streaked underparts up to the chin.
  
 
==Distribution==
 
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==Taxonomy==
 
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There are 4 subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>:
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*''O. s. magnirostris'':
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:*Lowlands of southern [[New Guinea]]
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*''O. s. affinis'':
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:*North [[Australia]], (Broome, [[Western Australia]] to north-western [[Queensland]])
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*''O. s. grisescens'':
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:*North Queensland (Cape York Peninsula and islands of southern Torres Strait)
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*''O. s. sagittatus'':
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:*East Australia (northern Queensland to [[Victoria]] and south-eastern [[South Australia]])
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Semi-open woodlands and eucalypt forests.
  
 
==Behaviour==
 
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Diet includes insects and fruit.
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Their diet consists of fruit, berries, seeds, nectar and insects. They will occasionally take the nestlings of small birds.
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The female builds a cup-shaped nest of bark and grass, bound with spider webs, which is attached by its rim to a horizontal fork on the outer-edge of the foliage of a tree or tall shrub. The female incubates the eggs alone, and the male helps to feed the young.
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====Breeding====
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The female builds a cup-shaped nest of bark and grass, bound with spider webs. This is attached by its rim to a horizontal fork on the outer-edge of the foliage of a tree or tall shrub. The female incubates the eggs alone, while the male helps to feed the young.
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==References==
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#{{Ref-Clements6thAug17}}#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Mar 2018)
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#Wikipedia
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{{GSearch|Oriolus+sagittatus}}
 
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[[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Oriolus]]
 
[[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Oriolus]]

Revision as of 22:26, 26 March 2018

Photo by tcollins
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, July 2008
Oriolus sagittatus

Identification

Immature
Photo by Hans&Judy Beste
Yarraman State Forest, Queensland, March 2018

25–28 cm (9¾-11 in)

  • Olive-green head and back
  • Grey wings and tail
  • Cream underparts, streaked with brown
  • Oliv-grey upper tail-coverts
  • Bright red eye
  • Reddish beak

Females can be distinguished from males by a paler bill, duller-green back, and an extension of the streaked underparts up to the chin.

Distribution

Australia and New Guinea.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 4 subspecies[1]:

  • O. s. magnirostris:
  • O. s. affinis:
  • O. s. grisescens:
  • North Queensland (Cape York Peninsula and islands of southern Torres Strait)
  • O. s. sagittatus:

Habitat

Semi-open woodlands and eucalypt forests.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of fruit, berries, seeds, nectar and insects. They will occasionally take the nestlings of small birds.

Breeding

The female builds a cup-shaped nest of bark and grass, bound with spider webs. This is attached by its rim to a horizontal fork on the outer-edge of the foliage of a tree or tall shrub. The female incubates the eggs alone, while the male helps to feed the young.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Mar 2018)
  3. Wikipedia

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