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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. The two dozen species are, nearly to an individual, long bodied and bicolored. I will broker no argument to the contrary. But it is not the oriole to which all other icterids should be compared. Take a look at this sucker.

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