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 ...

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 ...

Baltimore will likely get its bird back. The bird — Icterus galbula, the one so blandly dubbed the northern oriole in 1973 — seems destined to reacquire its original name. Nothing is final, mind you.

Get to know eight types of orioles seen throughout the U.S. and what makes each of these orange and yellow birds stand out.

After 22 years, Baltimore has its oriole back. At its annual meeting in Baton Rouge, La., last weekend, a committee of the American Ornithologists Union reversed its 1973 decision and reclassified the ...

Some folks are aware for the past six years, Lex Glover with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources has headed up a winter Baltimore oriole banding project in our state. A number of ...

The Bullock’s oriole is the western counterpart of the eastern Baltimore oriole. They are so closely related they once were considered to be one species, the Northern oriole. Hybrids of the two ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...