Black-hooded Oriole

Black-hooded Oriole
Black-hooded Oriole
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Oriolidae
Genus: Oriolus
Species: O. xanthornus
Binomial name
Oriolus xanthornus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Bathing in the rain in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Immature in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Black-hooded Oriole at bottom right compared to other Orioles in the region

The Black-hooded Oriole, Oriolus xanthornus, is a member of the oriole family of passerine birds and is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia.

It is a bird of open woodland and cultivation. The nest is built in a tree, and contains two eggs. The food is insects and fruit, especially figs, found in the tree canopies where the orioles spend much of their time.

The male is striking, with the typical oriole black and yellow coloration. The plumage is predominantly yellow, with a solid black hood, and black also in the wings and tail centre.

The female Black-hooded Oriole is a drabber bird with greenish underparts, but still has the black hood. Young birds are like the female, but have dark streaking on the underparts, and their hood is not solidly black, especially on the throat.

The black head of this species is an obvious distinction from Golden Oriole, Oriolus oriolus, which is a summer visitor to northern India. Orioles can be shy, and even the male may be difficult to see in the dappled yellow and green leaves of the canopy.

The Black-hooded Oriole's flight is somewhat like a thrush, strong and direct with some shallow dips over longer distances.

The New World orioles are similar in appearance to the Oriolidae, but are icterids unrelated to the Old World birds.

In Culture

In Sri Lanka, this bird is known as Kaha Kurulla (translates to 'yellow bird') in Sinhala Language[1] In Bangladesh, this bird is known as Bene Bou or Krishno Kotha Pakhi(translates to 'বেনেবউ বা কৃষ্ণ কোথা পাখি বা হলদে পাখি') in Bangla Language

References

  1. ^ http://www.bnhsenvis.nic.in/pdf/vol%203%20(1).pdf
  • BirdLife International (2004). Oriolus xanthornus. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
  • Birds of The Gambia by Barlow, Wacher and Disley, ISBN 1-873403-32-1

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