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 LC    African Golden-Oriole* Id (Atlas):
    Oriolus auratus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
African Golden Oriole, African Golden-Oriole, African Oriole

Family
Oriolidae (Old World Orioles)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
Vieillot, 1817

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,850 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Mauritania.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (26)...)

 
African Golden Oriole (Oriolus auratus) [XC719341]
     by Dries Van de Loock from Mole National Park, Ghana (call)

 
African Golden Oriole (Oriolus auratus) [XC349877]
     by Andrew Perkin from Choma, Southern Province, Zambia (call)

Subspecies
Closely related to Eurasian Golden-Oriole (Oriolus oriolus) and Indian Golden Oriole (Oriolus kundoo), with which it forms a superspecies, perhaps including also Slender-billed Oriole (Oriolus tenuirostris) and Black-naped Oriole (Oriolus chinensis) as members.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • auratus Vieillot, 1817   -  Breeds in northern African tropics in broadleaf savanna woodland from Senegambia east to Sudan and western Ethiopia, and in southern Somalia; seasonal movements northern and south of breeding range include northern Uganda and western Kenya.
  • notatus Peters, W, 1868   -  Breeds southern African tropics in broadleaf savanna woodland from Angola east to central Mozambique; seasonal movements northern and south of breeding range include eastern Africa and coastal islands.



References
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Files:
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