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Indian Golden Oriole
Latin Name:
Oriolus (oriolus) kundoo
Category:
Size:
25cm
Description:
Male: bright golden-yellow plumage; black stripe through eye; black wings and centre of tail. Female: yellow-green above; brownish-green wings; dirty-white below, streaked brown. Young male much like female. Solitary or in pairs; arboreal, sometimes moving with other birds in upper branches; regularly visits fruiting and flowering trees; hunts insects in leafy branches; usually heard, surprisingly not often seen, despite bright colour; seen only when it emerges on bare branch or flies across.
Habitat:
forest, orchards, gardens around habitation.
Food:
insects, fruit, nectar
Distribution:
summer visitor to the Himalayan foothills to about 2,600m; spreads in winter to plains; breeds also in many parts of peninsula.
Call:
Call Description:
fluty whistle of 2 or 3 notes, interpreted pee…lo…lo, the middle note lower; harsh note often heard; rich, mellow song when breeding, somewhat mournful; does not sing often.
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