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SpeciesPasseriformesOriolidae
Birds

🐦Eurasian Golden Oriole

Oriolus oriolus (Linnaeus, 1758)

The Eurasian golden oriole, also known as the common golden oriole, is a species of passerine bird, measuring approximately 24cm in length with a wingspan of 44-45cm, and the only Old World oriole breeding in Northern Hemisphere temperate regions. It is a summer migrant in Europe and the Palearctic and spends the winter season in central and southern Africa.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.08 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Everything we know about the Eurasian Golden Oriole

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.08 kg
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  • 0.08 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.08 m
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Wing length
0.15 m
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.03 m
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Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Maximum lifespan
15 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge Β· AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) Β· CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
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Habitat
Woodland
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
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Source: AVONET Β· v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) Β· CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. β€ΊphylumChordata
  3. β€ΊclassAves
  4. β€ΊorderPasseriformes
  5. β€ΊfamilyOriolidae
  6. β€ΊgenusOriolus
  7. β€ΊspeciesOriolus oriolus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds Β· Aves
  3. orderPerching birds Β· Passeriformes
  4. genusOriolus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds Β· Aves
  10. orderPerching birds Β· Passeriformes
  11. genusOriolus
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Closest relative on this site
πŸ¦β€β¬› Carrion Crow β€” last shared an ancestor β‰ˆ 33 million years ago.
In other languages
wielewaal (nl), Oriolus oriolus (es), loriot d'Europe (fr), 金黄鹂 (zh), Wilga zwyczajna (pl), sΓ‘rgarigΓ³ (hu) … and 27 more languages
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