Silver oriole

{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{Speciesbox | image = Oriolus mellianus 64974933 (cropped).jpg | status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 17 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Oriolus mellianus'' |volume=2016 |article-number=e.T22706449A94070575 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22706449A94070575.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Oriolus | species = mellianus | authority = Stresemann, 1922 | synonyms = * ''Oriolus traillii mellianus'' }}

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 and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest where it is threatened by habitat loss.

==Taxonomy and systematics== The silver oriole was originally described as a subspecies of the maroon oriole. Along with the black, black-and-crimson and maroon orioles, it belongs to a clade of red and black orioles.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Phylogeny and biogeography of Oriolidae (Aves: Passeriformes)|author=Jønsson, KA|author2=Rauri C. K. Bowie|author3=Robert G. Moyle|author4=Martin Irestedt|author5=Les Christidis|author6=Janette A. Norman|author7=Jon Fjeldsa|name-list-style=amp|journal=Ecography |volume=33|pages=232–241|year= 2010|issue=2 | doi=10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06167.x|url=http://www.nrm.se/download/18.25ba04a21296cc434f980005871/J%25C3%25B6nsson%2Bet%2Bal%2BOriolidae.pdf|doi-access=free|bibcode=2010Ecogr..33..232J }}</ref> Alternate names for the silver oriole include '''Mell's maroon oriole''', '''Mell's oriole''', '''Stresemann's maroon oriole''' and '''Stresemann's oriole'''.

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