If you live in the Southwest, attract a hooded oriole to your backyard with oranges, sugar water and native nectar flowers.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bird I always associate with St. Patrick’s Day, because I invariably hear the first one of the year a few days on either side of March 17th, is the hooded oriole. This year, perhaps because of the ...

Warmer and longer days stir the sap to run through the creekside sycamores and cause leaves to unfurl. The blood in the birds is quickening, too, and the excitement of spring reveals itself in song ...

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 ...