Perched on the white boards of the horse corral, a female oriole tugged again and again at a few white hairs of of our percheron horse's tail that had caught on a splinter. The long hairs must have ...

It blasted past me in Halloween colors and rose to perch among the branches of a streamside tree. I smiled as its orange and black feathering revealed its identity as readily as a name tag: northern ...

In nature, there is always beauty to behold. While sitting quietly on my favorite rocking chair on the front porch, enjoying my morning coffee while listening to the singing of the robins and ...

The only Baltimore Orioles most people see or know much about are the ones in Major League Baseball uniforms. The strikingly colorful male oriole bird is a beauty to behold, but you need to know when ...

It was a sad day for the folks in Baltimore several years ago, when after years of study, the eastern Baltimore oriole and the western Bullock's oriole were combined into one species and then renamed ...

The Baltimore oriole is a candidate for signature bird of summer. It is a bright, beautiful bird, as John Stennes' photograph on the front page of Friday's Herald showed clearly. It's also a ...

A half-century of controversy over two popular bird species may have finally come to an end. In one corner: the Bullock's Oriole, found in the western half of North America. In the other corner: the ...

The other day, I was in an upstairs room in our house west of Gilby, N.D., when I heard a familiar bird song. "Baltimore oriole," I thought. A glance out the window proved me wrong. The bird sitting ...