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 ...

(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 ...

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’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 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 ...

The only Baltimore Orioles most people see or know much about are the ones in Major League Baseball uniforms. The strikingly colorful male oriole bird is a beauty to behold, but you need to know when ...

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 ...

If you live in the Southwest, attract a hooded oriole to your backyard with oranges, sugar water and native nectar flowers.

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 corner: the ...