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Black-headed Oriole
Oriolus larvatus · Family Oriolidae
Oriolus larvatus
Family Oriolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Oriolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 210,321
- Countries and territories with records
- 29
About this species
This species has 210,321 occurrence records from 29 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (76.3%), Kenya (8.8%), Zimbabwe (3.1%), Tanzania (2.4%) and Zambia (2.2%); together they account for 92.9% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.4% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Oriolus larvatus combines the genus name Oriolus with the species epithet larvatus. The Warbla app catalog lists 28 species of the genus Oriolus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Oriolus oriolus, Oriolus xanthornus and Oriolus sagittatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 35 species of the family Oriolidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Oriolus oriolus. Its record count is 2.7 times the family average (78,258). The family Oriolidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.