The Life of Animals | Golden Oriole | The male is striking in the typical oriole black and yellow plumage, but the female is a drabber green bird. The New World orioles are similar in appearance to the Oriolidae, but are icterids unrelated to the Old World birds.
The breeding range of this species spans from Portugal, Spain and France across the United Kingdom and Scandinavia to Poland, Russia, the Balkans, Turkey and West Asia to the Caucasus up to Mongolia and China. They winter in central and southern Africa.
The Eurasian Golden Oriole inhabits a range of habitats. In Western Europe They prefer open broadleaf forests and Plantations, copses, riverine forest, orchards, large gardens; in Eastern Europe They may inhabit more continuous forest as well as mixed or coniferous forests. They Generally avoid treeless habitats but may forage there. In Their wintering habitat They are fond in semi-arid to humid Woodland, tall forests, riverine forest, Woodland / savanna mosaic and savanna.
