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Oriolus mellianus (Silver Oriole)

Wikipedia Abstract

The silver oriole (Oriolus mellianus) is a species of bird in the Oriolidae family. It is found in Cambodia, China, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests where it is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Oriolus mellianus

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Oriolus mellianus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
55
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 17.579
EDGE Score: 4.30833
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [1]  60 %
Diet - Invertibrates [1]  20 %
Diet - Nectar [1]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [1]  70 %
Forages - Mid-High [1]  30 %
Migration [2]  Intracontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hamish 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
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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