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Green-headed oriole

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| image = OriolusChlorocephalusKeulemans.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Oriolus chlorocephalus |volume=2016 |page=e.T22706400A94067911 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22706400A94067911.en |access-date=14 November 2021}}

| genus = Oriolus

| species = chlorocephalus

| authority = Shelley, 1896

| synonyms =

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The green-headed oriole (Oriolus chlorocephalus), or montane oriole, is a species of bird in the family Oriolidae. It is found in eastern Africa.

Taxonomy and systematics

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Three subspecies are recognized:{{Cite journal|title=IOC World Bird List 7.1|url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/ioc-lists/crossref|journal=IOC World Bird List Datasets|doi=10.14344/ioc.ml.7.1|doi-access=free}}

  • O. c. amani - Benson, 1946: Found in south-eastern Kenya and eastern Tanzania
  • O. c. chlorocephalus - Shelley, 1896: Found in Malawi and central Mozambique
  • O. c. speculifer - Clancey, 1969: Found in southern Mozambique

Distribution and habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical, dry lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Behaviour and ecology

They feed on fruit, seeds, nectar and insects or insect larvae.{{cite web |last1=Walther |first1=B. |last2=Jones |first2=P. |title=Green-headed Oriole (Oriolus chlorocephalus) |url=http://www.hbw.com/node/60454|website=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive|publisher=Lynx Edicions, Barcelona | date = 2016 |accessdate=22 September 2016}}

Gallery

Oriolus chlorocephalus subsp speculifer, Gorongosa, Birding Weto, a.jpg|O. c. speculifer is endemic to Mount Gorongosa, Mozambique

Green-headed Oriole specimen RWD.jpg|O. c. amani specimen at Nairobi National Museum

References

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External links

  • {{Commonscat-inline|Oriolus chlorocephalus|Oriolus chlorocephalus}}
  • {{Wikispecies-inline|Oriolus chlorocephalus|Oriolus chlorocephalus}}

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Category:Birds of East Africa

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