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Oriolus sagittatus (Olive-backed Oriole)

Wikipedia Abstract

The olive-backed oriole (Oriolus sagittatus) is a very common medium-sized passerine bird native to northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea. The most wide-ranging of the Australasian orioles, it is noisy and conspicuous. Not bright in colour, it is olive-backed with small dark streaks, with a light chest having black streaks. Females have cinnamon-edged wings and both sexes have reddish bills and eyes. The olive-backed oriole was first described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 under the binomial name Coracias sagittata.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.15998
EDGE Score: 1.96851

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  96 grams
Birth Weight [2]  9.7 grams
Female Weight [4]  98 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore, Granivore
Diet - Endothermic [3]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [3]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  30 %
Forages - Understory [3]  20 %
Forages - Ground [3]  10 %
Clutch Size [6]  3
Incubation [5]  17 days
Mating System [2]  Monogamy

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Amyema cambagei (Needle-leaf Mistletoe)[5]
Cinnamomum camphora (camphor tree)[5]
Ficus leucotricha (desert fig)[7]
Ficus macrophylla (Moreton Bay Fig)[7]
Melia azedarach (chinaberry)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Boiga irregularis (Brown catsnake, Brown Tree Snake)[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Microtetrameres oriolus <Unverified Name>[9]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1A comparative analysis of some life-history traits between cooperatively and non-cooperatively breeding Australian passerines, ALDO POIANI and LARS SOMMER JERMIIN, Evolutionary Ecology, 1994, 8, 471-488
2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
3Hamish 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
4Nathan 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
5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
6Jetz 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
7"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
8Body sizes, activity times, food habits and reproduction of brown tree snakes (Boiga irregularis) (Serpentes : Colubridae) from tropical north Queensland, Australia, D. F. Trembath and S. Fearn, Australian Journal of Zoology, 2008, 56, 173–178
9Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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