Baltimore Oriole

• reproducciónIt weaves a hanging pouch of a nest out of plant fibre, slung from the end of a springy branch to keep predators out.
• Its nest is a hanging pouch woven from plant fibres, horsehair and nowadays thread and plastic too, which the female builds in a week, knotting it to the tip of a thin branch where no heavy predator can reach.
• It owes its name to the coat of arms of the Calvert family, Lords Baltimore, whose heraldic colours are exactly the orange and black of this bird: it is the state bird of Maryland and the symbol of its baseball team.
• It eats fruit by piercing it and drinking the juice with its tongue, rather than eating the flesh: a technique called gaping, which consists of driving the closed bill in and opening it inside the fruit.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Open woodland, riverside groves, parks and urban trees of eastern North America; winters in the Neotropics

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

13 days

Litter / clutch size

4

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icterus_galbula

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.