Orchard Oriole Images

Orchard Oriole Images, Facts and Information:

Icterus spurius

• Orchard Orioles are small, stocky songbirds with black heads, backs, wings and tails. Males have a rich chestnut belly and rump, while females are greenish-yellow overall.
• Orchard Orioles are migratory and they breed across the eastern and central United States and parts of Mexico and Central America. They winter from Mexico to Colombia and northwestern Peru. These orioles prefer open deciduous woodlands, orchards, parks and suburban areas with scattered trees for nesting. They are often found near water.
• Orchard Orioles feed mainly on insects, fruits and nectar. Their diet includes caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers, berries, and sometimes small fruits like mulberries.
• Orchard Orioles lay 3 to7 eggs which hatch in around 12 to 14 days. Both parents feed the young and they are monogamous.
• A group of Orchard Orioles is known as a “harvest” of orioles.
• The oldest recorded Orchard Oriole was over 9 years old.

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