Orioles (Oriolidae)
Mountain Oriole (Oriolus percivali) - HBW 13, p. 728
French: Loriot de Percival
German: Bergpirol
Spanish: Oropéndola Montana
Other common names: Montane/Black-tailed/Percival’s Oriole
Taxonomy: Oriolus percivali Ogilvie-Grant, 1903, Kikuyu Highlands, Kenya.
Closely related to and sometimes treated as conspecific with O. larvatus, with which it mayhybridize in C Kenya, but the two differ in ecology and vocalizations; both belong to the “African black-headed group”, which includes also O. chlorocephalus, O. crassirostris, O. brachyrhynchus, O. monacha and O. nigripennis. Monotypic.
Distribution: Montane forests of E DRCongo, Uganda, Kenya, NW Rwanda, Burundi and W Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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eating a catarpilar Locality Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Daniêl Jimenez 21 September 2010 2 years ago 58 sec 4.2 -
calling bird high in a tree Locality Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Daniêl Jimenez 21 September 2010 2 years ago 26 sec 3.5 -
coming to playback Locality Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (Monotypic species)
Daniêl Jimenez 18 September 2010 2 years ago 5 sec 2.8
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Perched in tree
Locality Nyungwe Forest National Park, Rwanda
Jason Anderson 21 December 2009 2 years ago 3 -
Bird near a lake
Locality Lake Naivasha, Kenya
Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso 1 September 2009 2 years ago 2.1
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