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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

Oriolus sagittatus affinis
Oriolus sagittatus blaauwi
Oriolus sagittatus grisescens
Oriolus sagittatus magnirostris
Oriolus sagittatus sagittatus
Oriolus sagittatus subaffinis

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
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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