Recently, I wrote about my many and fortunate interactions with biologist friends in 2021. I mentioned taking an ornithologist friend to the nearby property...
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Whether they hail from the New World or the Old, orioles are undoubtedly fond of fruit. Of the thirty or so members of the...
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I can’t possibly remember when the Baltimore and Bullock’s Orioles were lumped into Northern Oriole. This happened in a good five years before I...
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When they say that you can’t go home again, the proverbial They are usually talking about the fact that people change. Maybe you’ve changed;...
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This is such a weird time of year at bird feeders. Most birds have finished up raising young, but a few are in the...
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Icterus is a wide-ranging neotropical genus consisting of the technicolor blackbirds we call orioles. The two dozen species are, nearly to an individual, long...
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The brilliant orange coloration and rich, haunting song of the Spot-breasted Oriole (Icterus pectoralis) makes this species one of my favorite permanent residents in...
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Something has always puzzled me in my years working in the bird feeding industry: why don’t we offer more fresh fruit to birds in...
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