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Baltimore Oriole
[Icterus galbula]
[Length 8.75 in. Wingspan 11.5 in.]
The Baltimore Oriole occurs in deciduous woodlands and suburban areas with nearby woods in southern Canada from Manitoba to Nova Scotia and throughout the eastern US.
It is absent from the coastal plain of the southeastern and Gulf Coast states.
In the Great Plains areas from northern Texas to Manitoba, it interbreeds with the Bullock's Oriole, which is the western counterpart of the Baltimore Oriole.
Males are black above and bright orange below while females have subdued tones of olive green above and yellow below.
The distinctive song is a varied series of rich, hollow-sounding whistled notes.
This male Baltimore Oriole was photographed in a flowering Dogwood Tree in a suburban back yard in central New Jersey, USA.
Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm f4.5 ED lens on Kodachrome 200 film.
(Date: May 1983)
(use image name "oribal" for inquiries)
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