Olive-backed Oriole
Photo · (c) Andrew Allen, some rights reserved (CC BY)

BirdUp · Species

Olive-backed Oriole

Oriolus sagittatus(Latham, 1801)

Also known asMunda

Least ConcernNative
Order
PASSERIFORMES
Family
Oriolidae
Genus
Oriolus
Conservation
Least Concern
Commonness
Very common
Best seen
Year-round

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

The olive-backed oriole, or white-bellied oriole, is a very common medium-sized passerine bird native to northern and eastern Australia and south-central New Guinea. The most wide-ranging of the Australasian orioles, it is noisy and conspicuous.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range
Trans-Fly (south-central New Guinea) and north and east Australia

03 · When

When to look

Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.

  1. Jan
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04 · Voice

What it sounds like

Sonogram of alarm

alarm · Quality A

Rob Nicholson · Camp Hill, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia

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05 · Behaviour

Habits and haunts

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