Description:

Medium sized golden yellow bird, with black mask and mainly black wings. Adult male has small black eye-patch, golden-yellow head and body, largely black wings with yellow carpal patch and prominent tips to tertials/secondaries. Adult female has yellowish-green upperparts and blackish streaking on whitish underparts.

Distribution:

Common summer visitor to all the valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan, only avoiding higher elevations. Occurs in deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, forest edge, open woodland, groves, cultivations and urban gardens with large trees. From 1000m to 3500m.

Behavior:

Forages alone, in pairs and sometimes in small groups; sometimes joins mixed-species flocks. Mostly in dense canopy of trees; may drop to ground to catch insects. Eats mainly berries and fruits of cherries, mulberries and figs; also buds, nectar. Also invertebrates, other bugs, ants, and especially caterpillars.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Indian Golden Oriole in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Indian Golden Oriole

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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