Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Fringillidae > Linurgus > Linurgus olivaceusLinurgus olivaceus (Oriole Finch)The oriole finch (Linurgus olivaceus) is a small passerine bird in the finch family. The male has a black head, a yellow body, black flight feathers and a stout bright yellow-orange conical bill. The female is a dull greenish-olive but has black flight feathers and a yellow bill. The oriole finch is found in Africa and is native to Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. It lives in subtropical or tropical moist evergreen montane forests. Four subspecies are recognised: |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.68071 EDGE Score: 2.03871 |
Adult Weight [1] | 20 grams | Female Weight [1] | 19 grams | Male Weight [1] | 21 grams | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 10.5 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 10 % | Diet - Plants [2] | 10 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 80 % | Forages - Canopy [2] | 30 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 40 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [3] | 2 |
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Name |
Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Aberdare Mountains |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Arusha National Park |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Bakossi mountains |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Bali-Ngemba Forest Reserve |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Bwindi Impenetrable National Park |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Cherangani Hills |
Kenya |
A3 |
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East Usambara Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Forests west of Lake Edward |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gashaka-Gumti National Park |
Nigeria |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Imatong mountains |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Itombwe Mountains |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kahuzi-Biega National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kakamega forest |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kibira National Park |
Burundi |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lake Manyara National Park |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Livingstone Mountains forests |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mahali Mountain National Park |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mau forest complex |
Kenya |
A3 |
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Mbi Crater Faunal Reserve: Mbingo forest |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Misuku Hills Forest Reserves |
Malawi |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mont Bana |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mont Manengouba |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Cameroon and Mokoko-Onge |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Elgon |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Elgon National Park |
Uganda |
A2, A3 |
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Mount Kenya |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Kilimanjaro |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Kupe |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Oku |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Rata and Rumpi Hills Forest Reserve |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Rungwe |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ngel-Nyaki Forest Reserve |
Nigeria |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ngorongoro Conservation Area |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Nguru Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nguu Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Njinsing: Tabenken |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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North Nandi forest |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nyika National Park |
Malawi |
A2, A3 |
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Nyungwe National Park |
Rwanda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Obudu Plateau |
Nigeria |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ol Donyo Sabache |
Kenya |
A1 |
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Rubeho Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Rwenzori Mountains National Park |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Tchabal Mbabo |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ufipa plateau |
Tanzania |
A2, A3 |
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Ukaguru Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Uluguru Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Umalila Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Uvidunda Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Uzumara Forest Reserve |
Malawi |
A2, A3 |
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Virunga National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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West Usambara Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
No |
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Guinean Forests of West Africa |
Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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