Replaces the Baltimore Oriole on the Pacific coast, with the same rollicking call and general all-around-devil-may-care spirit. Plumage not quite so vivid but a very fair substitute.
Finley tells of a man who shot four males in succession just to see if the female would bring back another husband. Those poor murdered birds were not the ones who ort to have been killed.
NEST: similar to Baltimore Oriole's but usually of stronger material and so elastic that it returns to shape after compression.
EGGS: 3–6; pale blue with erratic hairlines.
Western United States and British provinces east to eastern border of Great Plains.
A 15-foot tree distributed in coast areas of south Atlantic states thru Arkansas to Texas.