McGILL BIRD OBSERVATORY

PHOTO LIBRARY

Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)

after-second-year male

ASY male Baltimore Orioles have a solid black back and head, and intense orange underparts.  Occasionally, as in the second photo below, individuals may have lighter and darker patches on the upper breast.


Photo by Marcel Gahbauer, May 2005


Photo by Marcel Gahbauer, May 2005
 


ASY males have a distinctive tail pattern, with almost entirely black central rectrices, and yellow outer rectrices with black bases.


Photo by Marcel Gahbauer, May 2005

 

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