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[HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
15/05/2024 12:31:57 PM
Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Western Black-headed Oriole*
Id (Atlas):
Oriolus brachyrynchus
Vagrant
Description (10 )
Western Black-headed Oriole
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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.
Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.
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)... )
Listen to XC744257
Western Oriole (Oriolus brachyrynchus ) [XC744257 ]
by Bram Piot from New Debiso, Bia, Western Region, Ghana (song)
Listen to XC104297
Western Oriole (Oriolus brachyrynchus ) [XC104297 ]
by Mike Nelson from Aboabo, Kakum National Park, Ghana (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 ), Black-tailed Oriole (Oriolus percivali ), African 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:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Western Black-headed Oriole see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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