Western Black-headed Oriole (Oriolus brachyrynchus)

Other Names (World)
Western Black-headed Oriole, Greenish-backed Black-headed Oriole, West African Black-headed Oriole, Western Oriole

Family
Oriolidae (Old World Orioles)

Size
20 - 21 cm

First Described (Guide)
Swainson, 1837

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (47)...)

Western Oriole (Oriolus brachyrynchus) [XC285476]
by Martin St-Michel from Sempaya, Semuliki National Park, Bundibugyo, Western Region, Uganda (call)

Western Oriole (Oriolus brachyrynchus) [XC418600]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Parc National de la For\u00eat de Ta\u00ef, Ivory Coast (song)

Subspecies
Closely related to and perhaps forming a superspecies with Ethiopian Black-headed Oriole (Oriolus monacha). The two belong to the "African black-headed group", which also includes Green-headed Oriole (Oriolus chlorocephalus), Sao Tome Oriole (Oriolus crassirostris), Mountain Oriole (Oriolus percivali), Eastern Black-headed Oriole (Oriolus larvatus) and Black-winged Oriole (Oriolus nigripennis).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

brachyrhynchus Swainson, 1837 - Rainforests in eastern Guinea-Bissau, south-western Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and south-western Benin.
laetior Sharpe, 1897 - Rainforests in southern Nigeria and Cameroon east to Central African Republic, extreme south-western Sudan, west, central and southern Uganda (and patchily in east), extreme western Kenya and extreme north-western Tanzania, south to Gabon, northern Angola and south-west, south-central and eastern DRCongo.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Western Black-headed Oriole (Oriolus brachyrynchus) - 10 files

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