These neat birds are currently active right outside our homes at this most beautiful time of year, writes Hans Kunze.

Last week I mentioned my birding group at Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge enjoyed views of a first-year male orchard oriole. I received several inquiries as to how I knew how old the bird was.

the Baltimore Oriole being the more common and well known. Its rarer and less flashy cousin, the Orchard Oriole is smaller with a more understated plumage of rich chestnut. Baltimore orioles are ...

Ten Baltimore oriole chicks hatched in June at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. (Photo by Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute) ...

Among the most sought-after backyard birds, Baltimore orioles, orchard orioles, and Bullock's orioles boast bright orange and black coloration and build interesting gourd-shaped nests at the end ...

The perpetrator: a little flock of chestnut and yellow orchard orioles. Graves, a curator in the museum's division of birds who specializes in birds like vultures and the microscopic organisms ...

You’re likely to spot striking Baltimore and orchard orioles at your backyard bird feeders this month. Like other neotropical migratory songbirds, orioles fly long distances over the Gulf of ...

the Baltimore Oriole being the more common and well known. Its rarer and less flashy cousin, the Orchard Oriole is smaller with a more understated plumage of rich chestnut. Similar to the ...

the Baltimore Oriole being the more common and well known. Its rarer and less flashy cousin, the Orchard Oriole is smaller with a more understated plumage of rich chestnut. Similar to the ...