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Tanimbar Oriole
Oriolus decipiens (Sclater, PL, 1883)
Oriolidae — Figbirds, Old World Orioles, Piopios
Tanimbar Oriole, Oriolus decipiens, is a bird of the Tanimbar Islands in the southern Moluccas, where it breeds. It belongs to the family Oriolidae. Its range is confined to these islands, and it is associated with subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, mangrove forest and moist montane forest. It was once treated as a subspecies of the black-eared oriole, and some authorities still do not accept it as a separate species.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Oriolidae — Figbirds, Old World Orioles, Piopios
- Breeding range
- Australasia: Tanimbar Is. (s Moluccas)
