Orioles (Oriolidae) - HBW 13
Maroon Oriole (Oriolus traillii)
French: Loriot
pourpré
German: Blutpirol
Spanish: Oropéndola Granate
Taxonomy: Pastor
Traillii Vigors, 1832, no locality = Darjeeling, north India.
Closely
related to O. hosii,
O. cruentus
and, especially, O. mellianus;
all, together with O. xanthornus,
form the “Asian black-headed group”. Four subspecies
recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- traillii (Vigors, 1832) - Himalayas, Myanmar, S China (Yunnan E to SE Guizhou and W Guangxi), N Thailand, N Laos and N Vietnam.
- robinsoni Delacour, 1927 - S Laos and S Vietnam.
- nigellicauda (Swinhoe, 1870) - Hainan I.
- ardens (Swinhoe, 1862) - Taiwan.
- Least Concern
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A bird in a bush singing once, and flying to another one Phan Thiet Road, Di Linh, Annam, Vietnam (ssp robinsoni)
Josep del Hoyo 15 April 2008 1 year ago 20 sec 4.5 -
A bird in a tree, singing Phan Thiet Road, Di Linh, Annam, Vietnam (ssp robinsoni)
Josep del Hoyo 15 April 2008 1 year ago 51 sec 4.5 -
A bird resting on a treetop Lingmethang Road, Bhutan (ssp traillii)
Christian Boix Hin... 12 April 2008 1 year ago 18 sec 2.8 -
female in canopy Hueisun Forest Reserve, Nantou County, Taiwan (ssp ardens)
Martin Kennewell 23 May 2009 24 weeks ago 19 sec 2
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A bird on a branch. Wulai, Taipei County, Taiwan
alder 13 December 2008 1 year ago 3.8 -
A pair of Orioles stand on tree top. Taiwan
alder 7 February 2009 1 year ago 2.3 -
Behind the sakura( cherry blossom). Taiwan
alder 7 February 2009 1 year ago 1.5
- No sound recordings available yet
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