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For the past three days, I have had the pleasure of a visiting
Baltimore Oriole, (Icterus galbula),
Baltimore Oriole, (Icterus galbula),
a nice treat as they are not very common in Cape Breton.
I took a flurry of photographs, but few came out worth keeping.
However, here were a couple that barely passed muster.
After gorging himself at the suet feeder for the duration of his visit,
he's apparently moved on, as I have not
seen him today.
In spring, the Baltimore Orioles come to North America
from the tropics to breed. The Baltimore Oriole's name,
wrote Mark Catesbyin his eighteenth-century book
Natural History of the Carolinas "
comes from the Lord Baltimore's coat of arms."
The lord, Sir George Calvert, was governor of Maryland
in the early 1600's, and the coat of arms
was the same colors as the bird's plumage.
(Source: 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names, Diana Wells)
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