Nature has a way of following predictable schedules, and that means one of San Diego’s most colorful and entertaining backyard bird visitors will soon be arriving. With bright yellow and jet-black ...

There are 30 New World orioles, brilliant golden members of the blackbird family. Several species migrate north to the United States in spring, with the most familiar in Marin being the hooded oriole, ...

They’re back, but migrating hooded orioles hardly got the welcome mat this week as they arrived amid cold temperatures, rain and generally miserable weather. These beautiful songbirds may be wondering ...

Due to a few simple twists of fate, we’ve been “stuck in Dodge” this summer enjoying an unending string of phenomenal monsoons instead of our usual getaway to the foggy coast of Oregon. However, this ...

When 14-year-old Owen Squires first looked through a pair of binoculars and told his mother the bird she’d seen flitting around the Juneau Community Garden’s weed pile was a hooded oriole, she didn’t ...

DEAR JOAN: A single male hooded oriole arrived in our yard last week. Actually, we don’t know if he’s single or married, but we only saw him. We think we heard him about a week ago, but are not sure.

A big part of finding birds is being in the right place at the right time. When the birds show up, you have to be there. Last Friday, local birder John Brammer looked out his window and saw a large ...

There is a long tradition of tomfoolery on April 1. People have become accustomed to looking askance at sensational reports or stories made on this date. In the Ohio birding community, there is a ...

DEAR JOAN: A single male hooded oriole arrived in our yard last week. Actually, we don’t know if he’s single or married, but we only saw him. We think we heard him about a week ago, but are not sure.