I’ve been worried. I’d scanned the treetops and listen for his rich sweet whistle, but our Northern oriole hadn’t come home. All winter, I’ve missed his brilliant orange and black feathers, the hues ...

It blasted past me in Halloween colors and rose to perch among the branches of a streamside tree. I smiled as its orange and black feathering revealed its identity as readily as a name tag: northern ...

In nature, there is always beauty to behold. While sitting quietly on my favorite rocking chair on the front porch, enjoying my morning coffee while listening to the singing of the robins and ...

Perched on the white boards of the horse corral, a female oriole tugged again and again at a few white hairs of of our percheron horse's tail that had caught on a splinter. The long hairs must have ...

It was a sad day for the folks in Baltimore several years ago, when after years of study, the eastern Baltimore oriole and the western Bullock's oriole were combined into one species and then renamed ...

Eye-catching orioles migrating north from Latin American tropics will soon be dropping by area neighborhoods and yards. The bird has a startling contrast of a bright orange underside cloaked with a ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 2, 2017) The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is Maryland’s state bird and the namesake of its professional baseball team. The Baltimore oriole (and all American orioles ...

Brown-headed cowbirds have some very strange yet interesting tendencies. So strange, they are worth mentioning. Some birders feel they should be named the “Bison Bird” for its pre-settlement role in ...

Ithaca, NY--A half-century of controversy over two popular bird species may have finally come to an end. In one corner: the Bullock's Oriole, found in the western half of North America. In the other ...

I suspect like most people living in these parts, I thought we had only one type of oriole around here. Always called the Baltimore oriole when I was growing up, not too many years ago some of the ...