Recently, I wrote about my many and fortunate interactions with biologist friends in 2021. I mentioned taking an ornithologist friend to the nearby property...

Whether they hail from the New World or the Old, orioles are undoubtedly fond of fruit. Of the thirty or so members of the...

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...

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;...

This is such a weird time of year at bird feeders. Most birds have finished up raising young, but a few are in the...

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...

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...

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...