#hooded oriole

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My contest submission for the They Draw gallery "Southwest Vibes". The concept was based on the Lenormand card "home".

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Hooded Oriole

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bluebird and towhee and oriole friends

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BOTD: Hooded Oriole

Photo: Wendy Miller

"In the hot lowlands of the Southwest, this slim oriole is often common in the trees along streams and in suburbs. It is especially likely to be seen around palms, frequently attaching its hanging nest to the underside of a palm frond. In yards and gardens it often visits hummingbird feeders to drink the sugar-water. The jumbled, musical song of the male sometimes includes imitations of other birds."

- Audubon Field Guide

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what’s your favorite bird?

This is a very very hard question for me. I don't really have hardline favorites of anything! I have specific favorites for specific genetic niches that birds live in.

My favorite raptor or hawk is at the moment a red tailed hawk

My favorite common bird/"pest" bird has to be ravens

My favorite wild local bird that visits my feeders if the hooded oriole they are simply so beautiful

I also have to include hummingbirds because they never fail to make me laugh and they inspire me to see beauty and simplicity in the world

Hope this helped

Pete

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Feathursday Orioles!

Here are a few chromolithographic Feathursday Orioles, along with a Kingbird and a Flycatcher, from our 2-volume set of Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty, by the late-19th-century director of the Milwaukee Public Museum Henry Nehrling, and published in Milwaukee by George Brumder from 1893-1896. The lithographs are based on original water color paintings by the German naturalist painter Anton Goering. The individual birds from top to bottom are:

Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula), male.

Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula), female.

Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius).

Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus).

Bullock's Oriole (Icterus bullockii).

Scott's Oriole (Icterus parisorum).

Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucullatus).

Scarlet Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus).

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Hooded Oriole by Lee Greengrass Via Flickr: Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont, CA

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Line art for a gallery competition! The theme was "Southwest".

I pulled from my Lenormand deck for inspiration and got "house" as the card.

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Hooded Oriole

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summer friends

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Creature Awaits #201

Each week I plan to feature an amazing creature, admiring God's fantastic artistry.  Hopefully it’ll brighten someone’s day to see something new and interesting if they haven’t seen it before. : )

Happy Palm Sunday! Enjoy this feature known for residing in Palm trees...

(Beautiful still taken by talented bird photographer, Anne Toews (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 - cropped))

The Hooded Oriole

A.K.A: Palm-Leaf Oriole

Scientific Name: Icterus cucullatus

Region: Along central and southern, primarily coastal, regions of Mexico year-round, heading to northern Mexico and Southwestern US to breed

Size: About 7"-7.9" (~18cm-20cm) long, with a roughly 9"-11" in (~23cm-28cm) wingspan

Interesting Notes: The delicate, hanging nests of these beautiful birds, primarily appearing in palm trees, can be found "sewn" onto the underside of large fronds. Another species, the brown-headed cowbird, will sometimes sneakily lay an egg of their own into said nests so the oriole family will end up raising and providing for it so it doesn't have to.

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[1205/10977] Black-hooded Oriole - Oriolus xanthornus

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Family: Oriolidae (old world orioles)

Photo credit: Abhishek Das via Macaulay Library

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#467, a black-hooded oriole for @grunch-me-up. 

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Hooded Oriole by Lee Greengrass Via Flickr: Heather Farm, Walnut Creek, CA