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The Oriolest Oriole

10,000 Birds

In North America, at least in the eastern part of it, we celebrate the return of the Baltimore Oriole to parks and farms this time of year. 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.

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