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, ...

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 ...

The fluorescent orange-yellow and jet black male hooded oriole was hanging upside down under the bird feeder and looking at me like I was the crazy one. I had stepped into my back patio and startled ...

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.

In my last column, I welcomed the arrival of spring’s migratory birds to Marin. Foremost among these in attention-grabbing splendor and neighborhood observability are the orioles — brilliant golden ...

As I write this column (on Tuesday, January 9), there have been a pair of Streak-backed Orioles observed 90 miles north of SaddleBrooke at the Riparian Reserve at Gilbert Water Ranch since Sunday, ...

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 ...