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| | Orchard Oriole |
 | | Orchard Orioles spend only enough time on the breeding grounds to raise a single brood before beginning their southward migration. | | | Orchard Orioles spend most of the year on their wintering grounds in Central America and northwestern South America. | | | While in the North, they feed primarily on insects; in winter nectar, flowers and fruit are important to their diet. |
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http://www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com/orchard_oriole_info.htm
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| | Attracting Orioles |
| | Orioles also may use special sugar water feeders because sugar water is similar to the flower nectar on which orioles naturally feed. | | | Some orioles seem to be more attracted to oranges when they first return from their wintering areas but switch to an insect diet soon after. | | | Orioles weave nests of natural plant fibers and will also use lengths of string cut into 8-12 inch pieces. |
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http://www.stokesbirdsathome.com/birding/feeding/feedingpages/feeding108.html
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| | GardenGuides |
| | Orioles are also fond of soft fruits and berries, green peas, mountain ash, and the seeds of garden flowers such as hollyhocks and sunflowers. | | | Northern orioles feed insects to their young, at first by regurgitation. | | | All oriole males have a loud, pleasing, almost metallic whistle and are useful insect eaters. |
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http://www.gardenguides.com/articles/orioles.htm
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| | The Orchard Oriole, or Hang-nest |
| | Although the food of the Orchard Orioles consists principally of insects of various kinds, it is not composed exclusively of them. | | | The migration of the Orchard Oriole from south to north is performed by day, and singly, as is that of its relative the Baltimore Oriole, the males appearing a week or ten days sooner than the females. | | | Their flight is lower than that of the Baltimore, and considerably shorter in its continuance, the Orchard Oriole alighting more frequently on the tops of the trees, to rest or to feed. |
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http://www.abirdshome.com/Audubon/VolIV/00363.html
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| | All About Birds |
| | The Orchard Oriole eats nectar and pollen from flowers, especially during the winter. | | | Some orioles may return to their wintering grounds as early as mid-July. | | | It is an important pollinator for some tropical tree species, transferring the pollen from flower to flower on its head. |
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http://birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Orchard_Oriole_dtl.html
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| | A RESUME OF ANTING, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO A CAPTIVE ORCHARD ORIOLE |
| | The oriole's selectivity also demonstrates that the behavior of birds in the presence of ants cannot be evaluated without determination of the ant species and variability within the colony. | | | During the oriole's treatment of the wing tip, when tail was pressing against it, basal parts of rectrices (including undertail coverts) at times received some of the anointment, thus increasing the proportion of applications af- fecting the undertail region. | | | My oriole commonly anted for 25 minutes; that is, from the time it be- gan to apply ants until the time it quit or the ants were removed. |
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http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Wilson/v069n03/p0195-p0262.html
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| | Orchard Oriole |
| | Orchard oriole made up 1% of the total breeding bird population on the study area. | | | Stewart (1975) reported that highest breeding densities in North Dakota were associated with established planting of ornamental shrubs and in shelterbelts. | | | Breeding Population: The mean population estimate of 25,000 breeding pairs in 1979-1980 ranked 25th in abundance among the species in our sample. |
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http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/platte/species/ictespur.htm
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| | Dactylis glomerata |
| | Orchard grass (Bot.), a tall coarse grass ({Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. | | | Ribbon grass, a striped leaved form of Reed canary grass. | | | It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay. |
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http://dictionaries.cc/Dactylis_glomerata
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| | * Oriole - (Bird): Definition |
| | The ideal food for attracting the more unique birds, like bluebirds (which have begun wintering over), the northern cardinal, oriole, nuthatch, red-headed woodpecker, purple finch, blackbird gold finch, and titmouse is black-oil sunflower seeds... | | | The western variant Northern Oriole or "Bullocks " and the Hooded Oriole are just passing through,... | | | This bird was formerly considered to belong to the same species as the more eastern, under the combined name of "Northern Oriole"... |
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http://www.bestknows.com/bird/oriole.html
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| | The golden oriole of Europe is a beautiful orange-yellow bird with black wings and tail that ranges from England to Siberia and winters in Africa. | | | These orioles build cup-shaped nests in which to lay their clutches of two to five eggs. | | | New World orioles also feed chiefly on insects and fruit. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/id/A0836860
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| | Orchard Oriole Species Account - Florida Breeding Bird Atlas |
| | Like that of all orioles, the Orchard Oriole diet consists of insects and fruit. | | | Sprunt (1954) showed the southern edge of the Florida breeding range of the Orchard Oriole at Gainesville in north Florida. | | | By 1978, Stevenson (1979b) reported them breeding farther south in Taylor, Levy, Citrus, and Marion counties. |
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http://wld.fwc.state.fl.us/bba/oror.htm
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| | IV Birds - Northern Oriole |
| | The western variant Northern Oriole or "Bullocks " and the Hooded Oriole are just passing through, and can be seen at backyard nectar feeders and fruiting trees. | | | The Scott's Oriole seems to like our dry climate and can be seen gathering nesting materials in local Fan-tail Palm trees. | | | here are two variants (some consider two separate species) of the Northern Oriole - the Eastern or "Baltimore" form has a darker head, while the western or "Bullocks" form has orange cheeks with a dark skull cap (see photo at right). |
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http://www.imperial.cc.ca.us/birds/oriole.htm
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| | eNature: FieldGuides: Species Detail |
| | Nesting 4-6 whitish eggs, with purple scrawls, in a woven, pouch-shaped nest of vegetable fibers and grass, suspended from the forked branch of a tree or bush. | | | We have several that are in various stages of color from barely black chins to spotted caps and shoulders. | | | Q: What is the average time frame needed for the immature male orioles (Baltimore and orchard) to reach full plumage? |
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http://www.enature.com/fieldguide/showSpeciesRECNUM.asp?recnum=BD0526
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| | phorum - Texbirds - [TEXBIRDS] interesting oriole at GCBO |
| | I heard an oriole chatter behind me in a small flower garden with several species of blooming Salvia, firecracker bush, and Lantana, and a hummingbird feeder. | | | Hooded Oriole is very rare on the upper coast. | | | She noted two white wing bars with black wings and tail. |
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http://www.surfbirds.com/phorum/read.php?f=8&i=23764&t=23764
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| | Orchard, Texas - links to government resources and information |
| | HAY FOR SALE Oats, Orchard grass and clover mixed small square bales, $2.00 picked up from... | | | Organic hay for Texas Looking for organic hay to be delivered into Texas. | | | Mixed Hay For Sale Good Quality mixed hay, Orchard grass/Timothy/Alfalfa. |
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http://www.us-news-watch.com/Texas/Orchard.html
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| | BISON Species Account 041285 |
| | Orchard orioles breed in North America and winter primarily south of the US-Mexico border (1993) *26*. | | | NEW MEXICO: Orchard orioles summer in the lower Pecos Valley and vicinity and occasionally elsewhere in the south and occasionally northward. | | | Orchard orioles winter primarily south of the Mexican border *23*. |
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http://www.fw.vt.edu/fishex/nmex_main/species/041285.htm
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| | Species: ABPBXB9070 |
| | Nest is a hanging pouch or basket, not as deep as some oriole nests, woven of grass and plant fibers, lined with fine grass and plant down. | | | Diet in summer is mostly insects, especially caterpillars, beetles, and grasshoppers, plus many others, also spiders. | | | Also, parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbird has been noted and may be a problem. |
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http://www.fw.msu.edu/labs/gap/MIWild/Species/ABPBXB9070.html
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| | Journey North: Northern Oriole Migration Updates |
| | April 28 The first significant wave of spring migrants was noted today At Mt. Auburn Cemetary in Cambridge this morning there were 1 NORTHERN ORIOLE and over 20 other species sighted for the first time this spring. | | | Warm south winds late on the 26th presaged the appearance of good numbers of migrants the following day, over 20 new species were sighted. | | | April 25 Spring migration has burst at the seams during the past week with many northbound species appearing. |
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http://www.learner.org/jnorth/www/jn95/migrations/students/881596228.html
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| | Wing Island Bird Banding Station |
| | Orchard Orioles winter in southern Mexico and South America. | | | Their nests, made from grass, are woven into tree branches, but are not pendulous as the nest of the Baltimore Oriole. | | | Shown here is a young male Orchard Oriole who won't sport the chestnut and black feathers until their second year, although they may molt into some black chest feathers during their first fall molt. |
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http://www.wingisland.org/photos
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| | Original Artwork: Michael Warren: Orchard Oriole |
| | There the Orchard Oriole feasts on apple blossoms and other tree flowers, supplementing its regular diet of insects and berries. | | | Sightings in Central America of Orioles still in juvenile plumage and adults without complete post-nesting feathers, are ample evidence of the birds' hasty retreat from the northern breeding grounds. | | | Much of the year, the colorful Oriole inhabits such locales as coffee and banana plantations in Mexico and other points farther south, frequenting North America only during its breeding season. |
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http://www.windriverstudios.com/EB5TB0II.htm
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| | Georgia Wildlife Web Site; birds: Icterus spurius |
| | The diet consists of insects, fruit and nectar. | | | The young stay with the adults until the fall migration. | | | The Orchard Oriole occurs in most of the eastern United States during the breeding season. |
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http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/gawildlife/birds/Passeriformes/ispurius.html
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| | Montana Bird Conservation Plan - Version 1.0 - Jan. 2000 |
| | Nests are usually placed in deciduous trees from 4 to 50 feet off the ground and consists of a suspended basket. | | | Protection of riparian forest should include those areas within the range of this species in the state, and should be designed to emphasize mature stands. | | | Orchard Oriole is found primarily within the deciduous riparian forests associated with the major rivers, and their tributaries, shelterbelts, farmsteads and hardwood draws. |
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http://biology.dbs.umt.edu/landbird/mbcp/mtpif/mtoror.htm
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| | Orchard Oriole |
| | PREFERRED FOOD : Insects, fruit, tree blossoms; may come to hummingbird or oriole nectar feeder. | | | WINTER RANGE : Southern Mexico to northern South America INTERESTING FACTS: Often stay hidden in foliage, but not considered shy. | | | Louisiana seems to be at the heart of this oriole's preferred nesting area, as most of its nests were found there. |
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http://www.unclelukes.com/main/birdorchardoriole.html
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| | A Look at Two Rare Icterids in Santa Cruz County, California |
| | These latter records may pertain to over-wintering birds rather than spring migrants, as wintering birds elsewhere in California have lingered beyond these dates and true spring vagrants have been quite rare. | | | Only adult males have been identified so far in winter or early spring. | | | Some unidentified female or immature orioles found in the county during the winter (and some of those occasionally identified as Hooded Oriole) may have been Orchard Orioles. |
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http://santacruzbirdclub.org/recicterid.html
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| | Maine Audubon Bird Alert |
| | At the Maine Audubon Society Gilsland Farm Sanctuary in Falmouth there were BOBOLINKS, a pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES, and a pair of COOPERS HAWK. | | | BLACK TERNS and PURPLE MARTINS were seen in Belgrade. | | | In South Berwick, 3 BLUE-WINGED WARBLERS, and EASTERN BLUEBIRDS were seen. |
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http://www.curtislibrary.com/birds/me990525.htm
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| | Orchard |
| | Orchard grass (Bot.), a tall coarse grass ({Dactylis | | | Orchard house (Hort.), a glazed structure in which fruit |
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http://dictionary-x.com/Orchard.html
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| | Orchard Oriole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | These birds mainly eat insects, berries and nectar, also flower parts. | | | The Orchard Oriole, Icterus spurius, is a small blackbird. | | | Adults have a pointed bill and white wing bars. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard_oriole
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| | Birds - Orchard Oriole |
| | This oriole, too, builds a beautiful nest, not often pendent like the Baltimore's, but securely placed in the fork of a sturdy fruit tree, at a moderate height, and woven with skill and precision, like a basket. | | | The orchard is not always as close to the house as this bird cares to venture; he will pursue an insect even to the piazza vines. | | | When the dried grasses from one of these nests were stretched and measured, all were found to be very nearly the same length, showing to what pains the little weaver had gone to make the nest neat and pliable, yet strong. |
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http://www.oldandsold.com/articles20/birds-137.shtml
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| | Maine Audubon Bird Alert |
| | Three pair of ATLANTIC PUFFINS were at Waite's Landing in Falmouth. | | | At Hinckley Park, in South Portland Sunday, the list included: ORCHARD ORIOLE, SCARLET TANAGER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, plus 3 other VIREO SPECIES, 16 species of WARBLERS, 5 ROUGH - WINGED SWALLOWS, and a FIELD SPARROW. | | | A pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES were seen in Yarmouth adjacent to route 1. |
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http://www.curtislibrary.com/birds/me010515.htm
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| | Osprey Web Archive: [MDOsprey] Re: 1st Year male Orchard Oriole |
| | They are perfectly capable of breeding(you saw = evidence=20 of this), but generally less likely of obtaining a mate than the 2 year = and=20 older males because they usually have less desirable territories. | | | Of course = this depends on the number of orioles present. | | | Of = course this=20 depends on the number of orioles present. |
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http://marshhawk.home.att.net/1999-1/6008.html
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| | Triangle Birder's Guide: Mason Farm Biological Reserve |
| | The field is great for sparrows in winter and has Orchard Oriole in spring. | | | Follow the gravel trail, with field on left and thicket/forest on right until it dead ends at a swamp, known as Willow Oak Swamp, then retrace your steps. | | | Key birds: Spring and Summer: Acadian Flycatcher, Northern Parula, American Redstart, Prothonotary Warbler, Kentucky Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow-breasted Chat, Blue Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Orchard Oriole |
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http://tbg.carolinanature.com/masonfarm.html
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| | Orchard Oriole on Almondnet |
| | bananas, coconuts, and melons are all part of the Orioles fruit diet... | | | Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurious) Orchard Orioles are often found in scrubby or open woods, and sometimes in orchards... | | | hello people i have had a baby Orchard Oriole for about 3 weeks now i had him on a hand feeding formula... |
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http://www.siuk.org.uk/schb/orchard_oriole.html
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| | LookSmart - Directory - Orchard Oriole |
| | Covers the breeding of the colonial nester, as well as its diet and habitat. | | | Join the Zeal community and help build the "Orchard Oriole" Directory Category. | | | Displays a photo which was taken while this bird was singing. |
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http://lsxml.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317914/us146762/us225900/us928288/us331254/us10130584
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| | Jim Conrad's Natchez Naturalist Newsletter: |
| | During my eight or so years in Mississippi I can recall seeing that species here only once, during spring migration. | | | Throughout the day most of the time she worked alone but once she was visited not only by the male but also two other orioles -- females and/or immatures -- issuing happy-sounding chortles. | | | The main differences between the two species are that the Orchard's orange hue is much darker than the Baltimore's, and the Orchard's tail is completely black while the Baltimore's is conspicuously edged with orange. |
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http://www.backyardnature.net/n/04/040502.htm
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| | data by taxonomic order |
| | Pair nesting in same tree as last year, N. side of tree; still feeding young. | | | They arrived building a nest almost same limb. | | | Tree branches touch sycamore tree with N. Oriole nest on S. side - same as last year. |
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http://www.arbirds.org/data/taxoo-eg.htm
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| | * Orchard Oriole - (Bird): Definition |
| | Another eastern oriole is the Orchard Oriole which is smaller and less colorful. | | | See also: Oriole, Bunting, Finch, Tanager, Northern Oriole | | | Orchard Orioles are often found in scrubby or open woods, and sometimes in orchards. |
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http://www.mimihu.com/bird/orchard_oriole.html
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| | Orchard Oriole |
| | Use of this site is subject to certain Terms and Conditions. | | | There were three records of Brown-headed Cowbirds parasitizing Orchard Orioles. | | | Orchard Orioles are found throughout the state in shrubby and brushy areas of grasslands or other edge-type habitats. |
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http://conservation.state.mo.us/nathis/birds/birdatlas/maintext/0400179.htm
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| | Funk, D |
| | b gene (925 base pairs) and control region (344 base pairs) from 23 Orchard Orioles and 7 Fuertes’s Orioles. | | | Our findings suggest that Orchard and Fuertes’s orioles are separate species and provide a case study for evaluating the importance of monophyly in defining species limits. | | | Icterus) include several closely related species and subspecies pairs that provide excellent opportunities for studying recent speciation. |
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http://www.umbc.edu/biosci/Faculty/Abstracts/Omland_Auk_848Eng.htm
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| | Soccer Dad: Taxonomy |
| | Icterus is the type genus of the family Icteridae. | | | But the Baltimore and Orchard Orioles are so similar (in the same genus) that they have to be in the same family. | | | I thought, though, that the Baltimore Oriole no longer existed as an separate species and had been co-opted by the Northern Oriole. |
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http://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/archives/003010.html
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| | Birds of Nova Scotia - Orchard Oriole |
| | Remarks This oriole breeds from southern Saskatchewan to southern Ontario and northern Massachusetts, south to Mexico. | | | It is slightly smaller than the Northern Oriole, and the rich orange that glorifies the males of that species is replaced by chestnut in the Orchard Oriole. | | | Females and young males are olive-green above and yellowish below, the young males with a distinctive black bib. |
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http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0398.htm
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| | Birds: The Orchard Oriole |
| | The nests are round, open at the top, about four inches broad and three deep. | | | This Oriole appears on our southern border about the first of April, moving leisurely northward to its breeding grounds for a month or six weeks, according to the season, the males preceding the females several days. | | | The favorite haunts of this very agreeable songster, as his name implies, are orchards, and when the apple and pear trees are in bloom, and the trees begin to put out their leaves his notes have an ecstatic character quite the reverse of the mournful lament of the Baltimore species. |
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http://www.birdnature.com/may1897/orchard.html
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| | Orchard Oriole - Boot Lake Nature Preserve, Elkhart, Indiana. |
| | Orchard Oriole- Boot Lake Nature Preserve, Elkhart, Indiana - May, 2003 | | | Orchard Oriole - Boot Lake Nature Preserve, Elkhart, Indiana. | | | The following photos were taken with a Nikon Coolpix 995 Digital Camera attached to a Kowa TSN4 telescope. |
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http://www.jkcassady.com/gallery/oror.htm
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| | July Mystery Birds |
| | But that doesn't prove that it is a hybrid either. | | | The legs also look too thick and bulky for Orchard. | | | If this had not been in the hybrid zone I would have more confidence, but since its from there 'Northern' orioles can look like anything between a Baltimore or Bullock's. |
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http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jmorlan/july.htm
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| | Dr. Roger Tory Peterson Orchard Oriole Print |
| | You may be interested in the events which led up to the production of this special print. | | | As part of the Society's 50th anniversary celebration in 1986, Dr. Peterson agreed to paint the "Orchard Oriole" in color to be used to prepare for a full color cover for our journal. | | | The Georgia Ornithological Society has a limited number (less than 30) of "Orchard Oriole" prints produced from the original painting by Dr. Roger Tory Peterson available. |
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http://www.gos.org/publications/peterson.html
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| | definition of oriole |
| | They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. | | | Are, Black, Colored, Family, Genus, Golden, Icterus, In, Note, One, Or, Orchard, Oriole, See, Singing, Species, To, Very, World, Yellow | | | America, And, Any, Are, Belonging, Birds, Black, Colored, Conspicuously, European, Family, Genus, Golden, Has, Icterus, In, Musical, Note, Of, Old, One, Or, Orchard, See, Several, Singing, Species, The, They, To, Under, Usually, Various, Very, With, World, Yellow |
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http://www.brainydictionary.com/words/or/oriole196871.html
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| | Omaha Sunday World-Herald Trickery in Birdland. |
| | Orchard Oriole in company with a husky looking bird of brighter yellow with a jet black chest-protector under his chin! | | | One of the most delightful features of the charming pastime of bird study is the seemingly inexhaustible number of strange whimsies and freak "stunts" that nature springs on the bewildered but willing huntsman. | | | And when he has lived another year, has migrated to the southward and returned, he appears to your surprise in the conventional brick-red and black to clear his wife's name. |
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http://libr.unl.edu:2000/birds_of_nebraska/DJ.00916.html
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| | Recent MTY rarities |
| | I found the first one on 29 Dec 1986, and that immature male remained until 22 March 1987, providing the first winter record for the entire state at the time. | | | It now appears the bird may winter, and it has since been confirmed by numerous locals. | | | This is yet another example of the "Patagonian Rest Stop Effect" (birders searching for one rarity find another, and then another, and then another) which led to the discovery of minor winter rarities Yellow and Wilson's and Palm and Hermit warblers in the park, plus a Swamp Sparrow |
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http://montereybay.com/creagrus/MTY_rare.html
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