BLACK-NAPED ORIOLE

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

 (* 895)                  BLACK-NAPED ORIOLE              Oriolus chinensis

CAMBODIA              19

Common resident and migrant to secondary forests, mangroves, old plantations, scrub, parkland and urban areas. 26 cm. Indian sub-continent and much of China north to E Russia and Japan; also across much of mainland Southeast Asia, Greater ad Lesser Sundra, Philippines and Sulawesi.

BLACK-AND-CRIMSON ORIOLE

Photographed at Fraser's Hill, Malaysia, April 2017

1175                BLACK-AND-CRIMSON ORIOLE              Oriolus cruentus  

MALAYSIA              89

Found in tall forest from 600 m on hill slopes to 1,500 m in montane forest in the Malay Peninsula; usually keeps to canopy. 22 cm. Resident in the mountains of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and Java.

BLACK-NAPED ORIOLE

Photographed on Langkawi, March 2017

(*   895)               BLACK-NAPED ORIOLE                   Oriolus chinensis

MALAYSIA            18

Found in gardens, parkland, orchards, and secondary woodland in lowlands. 26 cm. Naturally resident from Mongolia, migrant to Malaysia, but natural and human-assisted spread of residents through Singapore and Peninsula Malaysia since 1925.

BLACK-HOODED ORIOLE

Subspecies ceylonensis, photographed March 2017

(*  254)                BLACK-HOODED ORIOLE                 Oriolus xanthornus

SRI LANKA                13

Found in forests, wooded areas and trees in villages and town gardens. 25 cm. Fairly common breeding resident in lowlands up to mid hills.                       

BLACK-NAPED ORIOLE

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

895                  BLACK-NAPED ORIOLE              Oriolus chinensis

SINGAPORE               (38)

Common resident and migrant to secondary forests, mangroves, old plantations, scrub, parkland and urban areas. 26 cm. Indian sub-continent and much of China north to E Russia and Japan; also across much of mainland Southeast Asia, Greater ad Lesser Sundra, Philippines and Sulawesi.

BLACK-HOODED ORIOLE

319             BLACK-HOODED ORIOLE              Oriolus xanthornus

Nepal          (3)

Range is tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia. Found in open woodland and cultivated areas, in rural and urban areas.. 

YELLOW ORIOLE

Photographed in Ingham, Queensland.

291            YELLOW ORIOLE                Oriolus flavocinctus

Australia           (261)

26-30 cm. Range across n. Aust. from w. Kimberley to Top End, and in Q. from Cape York Peninsular down to Ingham. Found in Rainforests, dense vegetation on watercourses, woodlands, paperbarks, mangroves, plantations, orchards and gardens.

BLACK-HEADED ORIOLE

254               BLACK-HEADED ORIOLE               Oriolus larvatus

South Africa       (17)

Range n and e of South Africa. Resident in mature woodlands, forest edge and exotic plantations.  Possible movement to coastal areas in winter. found in pairs.

OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLE

Photographed at Gold creek reservoir, near Brisbane, August 201

213            OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLE            Oriolus sagittatus

Australia         (213)

Range from Kimberley across the top of Australia and down e. coast to tip of SA, ranges inland to cover most of Q, NSW and Vic., small pocket around Adelaide. Found in rain forests, eucalyptus forests and woodlands, timber on watercourses, mallee and gardens. 26-28 cm