Baltimore Oriole
| Icterus galbula | Order: Passeriformes | Family: Icteridae (Troupials and Allies) |
Icterus galbula
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Icteridae (Troupials and Allies)
The state bird of Maryland is one of the most welcome spring arrivals in the East. A few winter in the US; sometimes one is even found at a feeder in a northern state. During spring migration, orioles are often attracted to oranges cut in half; they enjoy grape jelly throughout summer and fall as well, but jelly is not nutritious for their young, and when offered in large quantities can entrap other birds or even the orioles.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections Part 1: How Bad It Used to Be 2024
- Jelly Redux 2024
- May Day! 2024
- April Is the Cruelest Month 2023
- What to do BEFORE improving backyard habitat: Windows 2023
- Sweetness in Hard Times 2022
- My Most Colorful Spring and an Adorable Little Despot 2022
- Spring Symphony 2022
- Spring Update 2021
- The Miracles of May 2021
- May in August 2020
- Migration Begins Softly 2020
- What to Make of a Diminished Thing 2020
- By the Dawn's Early Dark 2020
- Update: End of May 2020
- Spring Update 2020
- Migration Progression 2020
- Feeding Jelly 2019
- Review: National Geographic field guide, Seventh Edition 2017
- Recap: Spring Warbler Walks 2017
- The World I Choose to Live In 2017
- Spring Update: Separating the MMMMs from the DDDDs. 2017
- Spring Update 2016
- Thirty Years 2016
- The Lusty Month of May on Peabody Street 2016
- Savoring a Slow Spring 2016
- Archiving the Last Decade of "For the Birds" Programs 2016
- My First Book: The Little Golden Book Bird Stamps 2014
- Audubon Report about Climate Change and Loons 2014
- Nature: Cataloging the particular 2014
- Sandy Gillum's Oriole 2014
- Mayday! May Snow Storms 2013
- Morton Arboretum Canada Geese 2013
- Photographing Birds 2011
- August Birding 2011
- Winter Bird Movements 2010
- A Happenin' Place 2010
- BP Oil Spill, Part I: A Predictable Disaster 2010
- Learning Natural Sounds 2010
- Athletic teams named for birds 2010
- Our Birds in the Tropics 2008
- Late Summer Cedar Waxwings 2008
- My Ithaca Balcony 2008
- Summer Pleasures 2007
- Summer Tanager in Silver Bay 2006
- Classification of Planets and Species 2006
- Heat Wave 2006
- Orchard Oriole 2006
- For the Birds at 20 Years! 2006
- Sunday Spring Walk 2006
- Tufted Titmouse (from Arkansas) 2006
- Hurricane Katrina: Letter from Nancy Newfield, Part II 2005
- Spring Warbler Walks 2005
- Tropical Migrants 2005
- George Ellis's Mourning Doves 2005
- Migration Strategies 2004
- Tower Kills 2004
- Cold Spring! 2004
- Jelly Belly 2004
- Duluth Birding Festival 2004
- April is the cruelest month 2004
- Mealworms 2003
- Redstarts 2003
- Rats 2003
- Mealworms 2003
- Scarlet Tanagers 2003
- Squirrels 2003
- Common Grackle 2003
- Chickadees and Mealworms 2002
- Jelly feeder hazard 2002
- Army Worms 2002
- House Karma 2001
- Autumn 2001
- Canada Warbler and other Fall Birds 2001
- Forest Tent Caterpillars 2001
- End of Spring 2000
- Baltimore Oriole 2000
- Book Review: National Geographic Field Guide, Third Edition 1999
- State Birds 1999
- Eastern Screech-Owl 1999
- Bird Name Pronunciations 1997
- Mid- Late Summer 1997 1997
- Hummingbird and Oriole Feeders 1997
- April 1997
- Emily Dickinson 1996
- Orioles 1996
- Feeder Notes 1996
- Housewarming Gifts (Placeholder) 1996
- Mourning Dove Survey 1995
- Robin Nest 1995
- Orioles 1995
- Orioles and Hummingbirds 1994
- Orioles (Placeholder) 1993
- Winter Oriole 1992
- Blue Jay victory (Placeholder) 1992
- Phone Log 1992
- Columbus Day 1991
- Birding along I-35 1991
- Sounds of Spring Migration 1991
- Northern Oriole 1990
- Baby Woody 1989
- Summertime 1989
- Tent Caterpillars and Cuckoos 1989
- National Warbler Awareness Week: Black-and-white Warbler 1989
- Baltimore Oriole 1989
- Attracting Birds in Late Spring 1989
- Watching migration 1989
- Migration Hows and Whys 1989
- April 1989
- Attracting Birds in Spring 1989
- Spring is on its way 1989
- This year's drought 1988
- Evocative Bird Songs 1988
- Indigo Buntings 1988
- Spring Songs 1988
- White-crowned Sparrow 1988
- Feeding Birds Responsibly in Spring 1988
- Tropical Rain Forest 1988
- Last Robin of Winter contest announced 1988
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 1988
- Birds of Baseball Revised. 1987
- Fog 1987
- Orioles 1987
- Feed the Birds 1987
- Birds of Baseball 1987
- Robins 1987
- More signs of spring 1987
- Early Signs of Spring 1987
- At the Zoo 1987
- Feeding in mid-autumn 1986
- Fly Up and Tell 'Em You're from Duluth! 1986
- A Walk along the Western Waterfront Trail 1986
- Informal Poll Results 1986
- Attracting Birds in Late Spring 1986
- Lousy Weather: Spring Update 1986
- Oriole 1986
Sound Recordings
- Breakfast in the Driftless 2024
- Wood Thrush! 2021
- Dawn Chorus, May 23, 2020 2020
- Baltimore Oriole chatter 2018
- House Wren: 13 songs 2018
- House Wren: 6 minutes of singing 2018
- Baltimore Oriole: 2 long songs, 3 short 2018
- Northern Cardinal: 5 songs 2018
- Baltimore Oriole songs and calls 2018
- Dawn in Trempealeau, Wisconsin; May 12, 2018 2018
- Dawn chorus in Minocqua, Wisconsin 2009