Biology:Black-winged oriole

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Short description: Species of bird

Black-winged oriole
Black-winged Oriole - Kakum NP - Ghana 14 S4E2635 (16202996242).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Oriolidae
Genus: Oriolus
Species:
O. nigripennis
Binomial name
Oriolus nigripennis
Verreaux & Verreaux, 1855

The black-winged oriole (Oriolus nigripennis) is a species of bird in the family Oriolidae. It is found in Africa from Sierra Leone and Liberia to southern South Sudan, western Uganda, central Democratic Republic of Congo and north-western Angola.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Some authorities have considered the mountain oriole to be a subspecies of the black-winged oriole.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q1587673 entry