The silver oriole (''Oriolus mellianus'') is a species of bird in the family Oriolidae. It breeds in southern China and winters in mainland Southeast Asia. Its natural habitats are

subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Description TSMF is generally found in large ...

and subtropical or tropical moist

montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures lapse rate, fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is ...

where it is threatened by

habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss or habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species. The organisms once living there have either moved elsewhere, or are dead, leading to a decrease ...

Taxonomy and systematics

The silver oriole was originally described as a subspecies of the

maroon oriole The maroon oriole (''Oriolus traillii'') is a species of bird in the family Oriolidae. It is found in Southeast Asia. Taxonomy The maroon oriole was originally described in the genus ''Rosy starling, Pastor''. Along with the Black oriole, black, ...

. Along with the

black Black is a color that results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without chroma, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness.Eva Heller, ''P ...

, black-and-crimson and maroon orioles, it belongs to a clade of red and black orioles. Alternate names for the silver oriole include Mell's maroon oriole, Mell's oriole, Stresemann's maroon oriole and Stresemann's oriole.

References

silver oriole Birds of South China Wintering birds of Indochina silver oriole Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Oriolidae-stub