Rare winter migrant to forests, plantations, and wooded gardens from lowlands to the hills. While wintering in Sri Lanka, the Black-naped Oriole occurs mainly as solitary birds and feeds on berries and insects in the canopy. It breeds in SE Russia, northeastern China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and wintering mainly in northeastern part of the India and peninsular regions as well as Bangladesh.
