Malaysian Birds

59  PASSERIFORMES: Oriolidae

Oriole

This is a wide grouping that encompasses  a variety of birds under different names of various sizes.

Birds included in this grouping would be the Orioles, Cuckooshrikes, Triller, Flycatcher-Shrikes and Minivet. So this broad group has 111 species in the whole world with 27 species in South East Asia. Then narrowing down to those birds exclusively named as Oriole, there would be 7 species. Of which 6 can be seen in Malaysia and here they are:-

All of them are fairly large birds with roundish body and rather short tail. They are suppose to be feeding in the upper canopy on insects. Most Orioles I have seen and shown in this series are fruits eaters. That would also be the time the birds remained at that one place  for a while.

Finally, the one Oriole that is very familiar to us - the commonly seen Black-naped Oriole is associated with rich orange-yellow and black color

Black-headed Oriole 1

Black-headed Oriole 2

Black-headed Oriole 3

Black-naped Oriole 4

Black-naped Oriole 5

Crimson & black Oriole  6

Crimson & black Oriole 7

Crimson & black Oriole  8

Dark-throated Oriole  9

Dark-throated Oriole   10

Dark-throated Oriole  11

 

 

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