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The Oriolest Oriole

10,000 Birds

Icterus is a wide-ranging neotropical genus consisting of the technicolor blackbirds we call orioles. I will broker no argument to the contrary. The two dozen species are, nearly to an individual, long bodied and bicolored. But it is not the oriole to which all other icterids should be compared. Take a look at this sucker.

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