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OLIVE-BACKED ORIOLE FACTS |
Description
The Olive-backed Oriole has an olive-green head and back, grey wings and tail, and cream underparts, streaked with brown. The eye is red, and beak is reddish too. The female has paler bill and duller-green back, and more streaking on the chest and throat.
Size
27cm
Habitat
forests, woodlands, rainforest, urban parks
Food
feeds in tree canopy on insects and fruit
Breeding
Builds a cup-shaped nest of bark and grass, bound with spider web. Nest is attached by its rim to a horizontal fork on an outer branch of tree or tall shrub, around 10m above the ground. Lays 2-3 eggs.
Range
coastal regions of northern and eastern Australia from the Kimberley region in Western Australia, around the east coast to Adelaide in South Australia.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Notes
The Olive-backed Oriole look similar to the Figbird. The key differences are: Figbird has black bill and dark eyes. Oriole has red bill and red eyes. Figbird has bare skin around eye.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Oriolidae | | Genus: | Oriolus | | Species: | sagittatus | | Common Name: | Olive-backed Oriole |
Relatives in same Genus
Yellow Oriole (O. flavocinctus)
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