Species profile
Wetar Oriole
Oriolus finschi
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 671111, adult male, collected on Wetar (= Wetter) Island, 07.48 S, 126.18 E (White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 16 April 1901, by Heinrich Kühn (no. 5604 A). From the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Oriolus finschi
- Family
- Oriolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Oriolus
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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