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The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its name from the resemblance of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of 17th-century Lord Baltimore .
The Baltimore oriole was not named after the city - though it certainly can be seen in Maryland. The orange and black plumage bore the same colors as the heraldic crest of England’s Baltimore ...
Orange oriole: Icterus auratus Bonaparte, 1850: 37 Altamira oriole: Icterus gularis (Wagler, 1829) 38 Yellow oriole: Icterus nigrogularis (Hahn, 1819) 39 Bullock's oriole: Icterus bullockii (Swainson, 1827) 40 Streak-backed oriole: Icterus pustulatus (Wagler, 1829) 41 Black-backed oriole: Icterus abeillei (Lesson, RP, 1839) 42 Baltimore oriole
The orange oriole’s diet consists of various insects, fruits, and nectar. It feeds on the native tree, Talisia olivaeformis, as well as the medicinal tree, Metopium brownie. [2] To gather the fruit from the native tree, the orange oriole uses its bill to pry into the hard shell and withdraw the pulp from inside the fruit.
The song of the hooded oriole tends to be short and abrupt. The notes are rapid and lack the whistling nature of many other oriole species, and often sound nasal and whiny in nature. [6] There is a high amount of variation both geographically and individually within the song of the hooded oriole. Each male also sings many different types of songs.
The Baltimore Orioles sale to Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein for $1.725 billion is just about done and dusted.A source with direct knowledge of the proceedings told Yahoo Finance that ...
Billionaire businessman and Baltimore native David Rubenstein was approved as the new owner of the Orioles on Wednesday, finalizing the sale of the team for a reported $1.725 billion.
In 1919, he bought 5845 acres of land outside Arvin in California's San Joaquin Valley. A year later, Di Giorgio founded Di Giorgio Fruit Co. His success came when he obtained water for the arid California land by drilling wells hundreds of feet deep. By 1929, just ten years after his original land purchase, Di Giorgio's company was the largest ...