What is a Oriole?

Answer 1

a bird

Answer 2

A bird.

Almost everything about the orchard oriole is small and compact—it has a short straight bill, at least by oriole standards, and a rather short and straight tail. The adult male orchard oriole is chestnut brown overall, with a black hood. Females are fairly plain yellow with whitish wing bars.

Orchard orioles range over much of the United States and southern Canada from the Great Plains east to the Atlantic Ocean. They are locally common in suburban shade trees and orchards.

Their song is a lively warbling with a wide pitch range, ending in a distinctive, ringing pli titi zheeeer. The common call of the male is a clear whistled tweeo. Calls also include a low, soft chut.

Answer 3

Orioles are colourful Old World passerine birds in the family oriolidae. The orioles are a mainly tropical Old World group, although one species breeds in more temperate regions.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Oriolidae

The species of Orioles are-

Species

* Golden Oriole, Oriolus oriolus
* Brown Oriole, Oriolus szalayi
* Halmahera Oriole, Oriolus phaeochromus
* Ceram Oriole, Oriolus forsteni
* Buru Oriole, Oriolus bouroensis
* Timor Oriole, Oriolus viridifuscus
* Olive-backed Oriole or White-bellied Oriole, Oriolus sagittattus
* Yellow Oriole or Green Oriole, Oriolus flavocinctus
* Dark-throated Oriole, Oriolus xanthonotus
* White-lored Oriole, Oriolus albiloris
* Isabela Oriole, Oriolus isabellae
* African Golden Oriole, Oriolus auratus
* Black-naped Oriole, Oriolus chinensis
* Green-headed Oriole, Oriolus chlorocephalus
* Great-billed Oriole, Oriolus crassirostris
* Western Black-headed Oriole, Oriolus brachyrhynchus
* Forest Oriole, Oriolus monacha
* Black-headed Oriole, Oriolus larvatus
* Black-winged Oriole, Oriolus nigripennis
* Black-hooded Oriole, Oriolus xanthornus
* Black Oriole, Oriolus hosii
* Black and Crimson Oriole, Oriolus cruentus
* Maroon Oriole, Oriolus trailili
* Silver Oriole, Oriolus mellianus
* Figbird Sphecotheres viridis

Answer 4

A bird,A Baltimore Oriole!

Answer 5

In America orioles are members of the icteridae family, which is the same family as blackbirds. There are several varieties, depending on what part of the country you live in. The best known species is the Baltimore Oriole, which the baseball team is named after. Other species in the US include Orchard, Bullocks, Scott's, Hooded, Altamira and Audubon's.

Orioles eat fruit and insects. They are brightly colored with males being either brilliant orange and black, as in the case of Baltimores, Bullocks, Altamira and Hoodeds, or bright yellow and black, as in Scott's and Audubon's. The one exception is the Orchard Oriole which is a chestnut brown. They are mostly summer residents, migrating south in winter. In the Rio Grande Valley and Arizona some birds are present all year.

Its possible to attract Orioles to your yard by feeding sugar water, like you would to hummingbirds, or by putting out cups of grape jelly. At Bentsen State Park in the Rio Grande Valley I have seen people feeding them marshmallows stuck on twigs of trees! They will also come in to orange or grapefruit halves stuck on branches.

Answer 6

A bird. More specifically, it's a black/yellow-colored bird. You could just have Googled "oriole" and seen it for yourself. :-\

Answer 7

What she said!
Or a baseball team named "Baltimore Orioles"!

Answer 8

an Oriole is a bird that useally is orange and black and sometimes white

Answer 9

A black-and-orange or black-and-yellow bird.

Answer 10

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