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 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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural ...

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 ...

(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 ...

In a Baltimore oriole the orange and yellow would be more extensive on the bird and would be brightest on the upper breast. If you have sent me photos of Baltimore orioles, check yours. You should be ...

Of the many lovely birds that summer here but winter in the tropics, orioles are among the loveliest with their contrasting orange and black plumage, augmented by their pretty songs. The Baltimore ...

The Baltimore oriole is a candidate for signature bird of summer. It is a bright, beautiful bird, as John Stennes' photograph on the front page of Friday's Herald showed clearly. It's also a ...

The other day, I was in an upstairs room in our house west of Gilby, N.D., when I heard a familiar bird song. "Baltimore oriole," I thought. A glance out the window proved me wrong. The bird sitting ...

As we move into September and the autumn season, it is time to look for the unusual in the bird world. Fall is the time when vagrants, birds that show up outside of their normal range, often show up ...