How to Use oriole in a Sentence
oriole
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As migrations go, the oriole journey is not a long one.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
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On a busy day at the feeders, the orioles would arrive early, sometimes in numbers of five or six.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
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The stream is home to tree frogs, while orioles, tanagers, crows, hawks and humming birds often fly overhead.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 4 May 2017
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It's not woven like an oriole nest nor held together with mud like a robin's.
—Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
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And also discovers the phony oriole perched on the bird feeder.
—Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
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Within days, the summer hubbub of busy orioles was replaced by the arrival at our seed feeders of a raucous bird with a new name.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
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After cooling, add the mixture to clean feeders made for larger oriole beaks.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
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In fact, seven of the bird species found at the site still live in the Sonora region – including red-winged blackbirds and orchard orioles – but one species is entirely extinct.
—Brian Switek, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2011
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The organization is asking to change the names for roughly 150 birds in North America, including species such as Scott’s oriole and Steller’s jay.
—Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2023
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In Hadley, observers spotted a black-bellied plover, a mourning warbler, two worm-eating warblers, a blue grosbeak, and an orchard oriole.
—BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2021
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The best bird feeders are designed to attract specific bird species such as hummingbirds, finches, or orioles.
—Kristen (kj) Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
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In the next few days, the brightly colored hooded oriole males will begin straggling into San Diego County from their winter homes in Mexico.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2021
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This was the first oriole of the season and as far as I was concerned, his mission was complete, arriving here last week after traveling as much as 2,000 miles from his winter home in Mexico.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
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At the Fannie Stebbins Refuge in Longmeadow, reports included a least bittern and an orchard oriole.
—BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2021
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Remember, the hummingbirds will use the oriole feeders as well, so after the orioles depart, keep them filled for the tiny buzzbirds, especially as cold weather arrives.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
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Maryland falls within the orioles’ breeding ground, which stretches across eastern and central North America.
—The New York Times Elaine Chen Emily Anthes, New York Times, 18 May 2023
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This feature also allows the colorful vittles to be seen by orioles passing overhead.
—Kristen (kj) Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
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At the end of the summer, Southern California waves goodbye to migrating cliff swallows, hooded orioles, and black-headed grosbeaks.
—Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2023
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The birders’ count after an hour that day, submitted to a Cornell University survey app, included 24 species, among them a Bullock’s oriole.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
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Ernie Cowan’s Outdoors column Show more sharing options My heart soared as the neon-yellow and jet black male hooded oriole fluttered into the nectar feeder dangling not more than 3 feet away just outside the window.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
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Mealworm seedcake, for example, is designed to attract bluebirds, orioles, wrens, jays, chickadees and titmice.
—Kara Carlson, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2017
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Another good example was the subject of my recent column talking about the disappearance of hummingbirds and orioles.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2023
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Behind the birdhouse the bright red blossoms of a bottlebrush tree were attracting Anna’s hummingbirds, while a hooded oriole was sewing an elaborate hanging basket nest into the underside of a broad palm frond.
—Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 July 2017
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Sometimes, writes Harrison in the journal Social History of Medicine, medical manuals suggested they be worn around the neck like a talisman, as in one cure that called for a golden oriole songbird to be strapped around a sickly horse.
—John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
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Migration is often triggered by the availability of food, and drought conditions may have impacted the oriole’s food sources here, thus triggering a slightly earlier departure.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
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Another orchard oriole also sighted at Sally Milligan Park in Beverly.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
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