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Oriolus xanthornus
Diet
Insects and fruit, especially figs
Habitat
Open woodland and cultivation
Clutch size
2 eggs
The black-hooded oriole is a striking oriole. The male is mainly bright yellow with a solid black hood and black in the wings and the centre of the tail. The female is drabber with greenish underparts but still has the black hood, and young birds are like females with dark streaks below and an incomplete hood. Its flight is thrush-like, strong and direct with shallow dips over longer distances (Wikipedia, general species account).
It is a bird of open woodland and cultivation that spends much of its time in the tree canopy, where even the bright male can be hard to see among dappled leaves. It eats insects and fruit, especially figs, gleaning from foliage and bark or sallying after prey. It builds its nest in a tree and lays two eggs (Wikipedia, general species account).