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Golden Oriole Oriolus oriolus

 
 

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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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  09:44 29/10/09 Golden Oriole Cheshire Congleton 09:00 
  18:51 25/09/09 Golden Oriole Outer Hebrides Greinetobht, N.Uist   
  08:48 24/09/09 Golden Oriole Shetland Cullivoe, Yell 23/09/09 
  17:12 22/09/09 Golden Oriole Outer Hebrides Greinetobht, N.Uist   
  22:46 21/09/09 Golden Oriole Shetland Cullivoe, Yell   
  23:03 19/09/09 Golden Oriole Shetland Mid Yell, Yell   
  10:46 15/09/09 Golden Oriole Shetland Camb, Yell 08:40 
  08:39 14/09/09 Golden Oriole Cork Galley Head 08:15 
  09:12 13/09/09 Golden Oriole Cumbria Witherslack   
  13:50 12/09/09 Golden Oriole Cumbria Witherslack 12:00 

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