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 NT    Dark-throated Oriole* Id (Atlas):
    Oriolus xanthonotus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Dark-throated Oriole, Black-headed Oriole, Black-throated Oriole, Malaysian Oriole

Family
Oriolidae (Old World Orioles)

Size
20 - 20.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Horsfield, 1821

Habitat
Primary lowland evergreen forest, tall secondary forest, peatswamp-forest. From sea-level - 1,200 m.

Range (Guide)
Brunei Darussalam (B), Indonesia (B), Malaysia (B), Myanmar (B), Philippines (B), Singapore (E), Thailand (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010) and decreasing.

Status NT
Habitat destruction through illegal logging and land conversion, and forest fires are the main threats.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (83)...)

 
Dark-throated Oriole (Oriolus xanthonotus) [XC192781]
     by Marc Anderson from Panti Bird Sanctuary, Johor, Malaysia (call)

 
Dark-throated Oriole (Oriolus xanthonotus) [XC882517]
     by Ding Li Yong from Johor, Panti Forest Reserve, Bunker Trail, Malaysia (song)

Subspecies
Sister-species to and formerly treated as conspecific with Philippine Oriole (Oriolus steerii), both possibly forming a superspecies with Isabela Oriole (Oriolus isabellae) and all were formerly placed in the alternative genus Xanthonotus.

Proposed subspecies palawanus has same type locality (Puerto Princessa, on Palawan) as persuasus, of which it is a junior synonym.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • xanthonotus Horsfield, 1821   -  Extreme southern Myanmar (southern Tenasserim), southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Bangka, Java and south-western Borneo.
  • mentawi Chasen & Kloss, 1926   -  Mentawai Is (Siberut, Sipura, Pagai Is), off western Sumatra.
  • persuasus Bangs, 1922   -  Culion I and Palawan, in western Philippines.
  • consobrinus Wardlaw-Ramsay, RG, 1880   -  Northern, central and eastern Borneo and adjacent islands.



References
See References.


Files:
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