male	male female European distribution male in tree

Identification

Male Golden Orioles are spectacularly colourful but if it wasn't for their distinctive far-carrying songs they could easily be overlooked. The adult male is unmistakably, startlingly yellow apart from jet black wings and tail and a blood red beak. The female is greener and streaked below, distinctive enough when seen perched, but having similar colours to a Green Woodpecker in flight. The oriole though is smaller with blacker more pointed wings and yellow corners to the tail.

Habitat

Breeds in broad-leaved woodlands, plantations and wind-breaks especially of poplar trees.

Behaviour

Their displays include frequent chases from tree to tree or through the canopy.

Migration

Migratory, with birds wintering in sub-Saharan Africa as far south as Namibia and South Africa. They migrate mainly at night.

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For the purposes of our bird news services, Golden Oriole is classed as Scarce: broadly speaking, species that are covered in British Birds' annual review of scarce species (and forms of similar rarity).

Mertola, Alentejo, Portugal 15/07/2009	Hortobagy, Hungary 01/06/2009	Camb, Yell, Shetland 15/09/2009	Camb, Yell, Shetland 15/09/2009	Arakiya Old Farm, Qatar 04/09/2009
Tetovo, Macedonia (Republic of) 26/07/2009	Tetovo, Macedonia (Republic of) 26/07/2009	Argeles sur Mer, Languedoc-Roussillon, France 17/07/2009	Chateaudouble, Var Dept, France 21/07/2009	Lakenheath Fen, Suffolk 21/06/2009

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Golden Oriole breeds in the following countries (Bird News Extra subscribers will see population statistics and information on trends for each country):

Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Britain
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Italy
Latvia
Lichtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Moldova
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia and Montenegro
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine

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